LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wage Labour, Bsc Young Boys, Classical Liberalism
17 Apr 2016
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October 1, 2014: wage labour was looked down upon (recall, industrailial revolution larger group of people who do wage work (unskilled, semi-skilled workers, emergence there"s still a very large part of the population in agriculture. Today agriculture makes about 4% about the entire workers. Back then 64: labour marker large amounts of workers sell work, wages high, workers low, wages low, unemployment, high level of mobility - Life of hardships: vast majority life was high to pay basic needs, breadwinners wage. The main earner in the family (father or adult male) It"s a term that questions whether they make enough to support to support the family without anyone else working. When you look at the working class, a clear minority made the breadwinner"s wage. A lot of them didn"t, throughout canada. Ideal that most families didn"t have: insecurity. Families in a lot of cities nervous cause they were coming to the end of harvest season.
