Sociology 2169 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Black Canadians, European Canadian, Sleeping Car
8 Apr 2016
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Split labour market exists when the cost of labour substantially differs along ethnic lines for the same work, or would differ if they did the same work. In labour markets split along ethnic lines, conflict develops among businesses (employers), higher paid dominant labour and lower paid ethnic minority labour. What are the 3 reasons for pullman"s selection of blacks as sleeping car porters? (1) they were cheaper. Compare and contrast job characteristics of sleeping car porters and sleeping car conductors and dining car stewards. Better pay exercise of formal authority over nonblack workers. The importation of temporary migrant workers from the us particularly form the south, was also used to create and maintain a double split labour market btwn black. Canadian and imported black american labour on the one hand, and btwn black and white canadian labour on the other. It was not until 1942 that porters with the crp were unionized and an agreement was worked out in 1945.
