CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Media Literacy, Monsoon Accessorize, American Psychological Association
28 Jan 2014
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Week 5: children and youth as producers and consumers. Idealized childhood is complicated by processes of production and consumption. There are diverse and culturally specific distinctions between what is considered acceptable and unacceptable work for children. Chores, delivering newspaper, cutting grass, dog walking, house sitting, washing cars, shoveling snow, etc. Factory work, heavy labor, construction, metal work, mining, cooks, lifting, sweatshop worker, long hours: childhood outside market relations - review, public/private spheres. Historically in the 1900"s we started to see increasing division of the realm of the home and the realm of the workplace: innocent childhood, other discourses of childhood. B) acceptable" child work: as trainingmore comfortable if work is seen as some type of training. Idea of chores as being practice or preparation. Link to becoming: when is work educational and when is it exploitative: as vital contribution In some families paid work is a vital part of a family.
