SOC366H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Putting-Out System, Unpaid Work, Separate Spheres
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Chapter 2: gendered work in time and place: although every society assigns tasks on the basis of people"s sex, the kinds of tasks that go to women and men have varied over time and around the world. This chapter traces the evolution of the western sexual division of labor over the past 400 years. We first describe how western preindustrial societies divided work between the sexes. We then show how industrialization, by commercializing work, created another sexual division of labor paid employment for men and unpaid domestic work for women. we describe the sexual division of labor among western and non-western nations around the world. Girls and women took charge of raising domestic animals. Thus, they milked, churned butter, made cheese, and butchered animals. Women also made bread, beer, cloth, and clothing. Men built houses, hewed timber, harrowed, dug ditches, and cut hedges: before industrialization, the work of servants resembled that of peasants.
