Sociology 2235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Subsistence Economy, Nuclear Family, Child Tax Credit
1 Sep 2020
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Lecture 9 - paid and unpaid work in families. Paid work: more service sector jobs, not a lot of security, benefits, lower pay, etc. Increases in self-employment: entrepreneurship: growth working in multiple jobs. Living day-to-day: hunting and gathering, horticultural, agrarian, less differentiation between "his" and "her" spheres. Impact of world war ii: women, encouraged to work, entered labour market in dramatic numbers, most men had gone to war, therefore they needed women to work, provision for working mothers, nurseries, buses for children. "breadwinner father/housewife mother: women are not working anymore (they are not getting paid, motherhood is seen as a sole "calling, fatherhood declined in importance (became more detached from their family) Increase in mother"s employment: 2x rate of older women, mother"s with children under 6 years old, doubled in the last 20 years, mothers working part-time hours more than full-time hours.
