SOC425H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dry Cleaning, Global City, Consumer Activism
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Gender, labor and migration labor and marriage migration. Factory that makes christmas decorations-mostly in the western world. About 70% of the christmas decorations in china for festivities and celebration. Things are linked in a way that are not obvious. Domestic work, surrogacy, sex work that may not considered as legitimate work. 2 questions: key points of one article, synthesis: how is this article and that article related, relate the point of this piece to another, application of the concept in the real world. Reading responses: short essay, page or 2, single spaced, layout each week"s readings and key points, main research question, this is what goes through it, the method, your response, choose 5 out of 7 weeks. Raw material: cotton, oil that makes plastic. World system theory: the world is divided into three parts, periphery: that"s where raw material come from, there is exploitation (africa and parts of asia) Labor is exploited as critical as other raw materials.
