SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Precarious Work, Nanny, Racialization
5 Apr 2017
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Intersection of gender, work, and migration: temporary workers in canada, korean women workers (factory and sex work, migrant sex work in canada. The modern divide between the public and private sphere in the 19th century: traditional family. Precarious work and people of colour: racialized workers and recent immigrants are most likely to find themselves in part- time, temporary work, among part-time workers, women are more likely to be low-paid, single parents (often women) Colour coded labour market: 2006 census data (economic boom, pay gap between racialized and non-racialized canadians is large: racialized. Canadians earn only 81. 4 cents for every dollar paid to non-racialized canadians: variable across groups (~0. 69-0. 89, 0. 69 korean, 0. 89 chinese, black were inbetween this. Indigenous (~0. 45 and 0. 75: on reserve 0. 45, off reserve 0. 75. Women and work: franchise: suffrage and equal opportunity. In england, lower class (working class women) were taking care of women, not racialized women: to those with less finance.
