LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Marilyn Waring, Wage Labour, Pink-Collar Worker
6 Feb 2019
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Angles argues that with emergence of private property, women"s work (domestic labour) became seen as less or completely unproductive. Taught economics is something out of reach that can"t be understood but she shows how it touches our lives everyday. Her argument is that women"s labour is worthless in national accounting of growth, gdp, productive to economy. Margret argued that in canada, unpaid labour and housework is completely devalued because it"s not monetized/wage labour and gets excluded from system of economics. If we were to pay women min. wage for work done at home it would require massive redistribution of wealth. Also see patriarchy within sphere of wage labour, not only unpaid work but women"s work within pink collar (work related to care), women having unequal pay, and overall earning women earn 66. 4% of male"s wages in part-time. Combined forces of racism, patriarchy and citizenship come together to shape people"s lives, options for work and resistance.
