SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Maternal Wall, Pension, Precarious Work
4 Dec 2017
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* 22% of the canadian workforce is 10 years from retirement : school to work transition has changed, prolonged. ), fair/equal pay, they also help the employees fight or negotiate things that they want: at election time, union heads may give their opinion on who they think their employees should vote for. Structural functionalism: davis and moore, financial rewards linked to importance. I(cid:374) (cid:373)(cid:455) (cid:272)urre(cid:374)t jo(cid:271) : i own the goods that i make or sell. Yes or no: i am free to do my own work in whatever way i like. Yes or no: i can be creative at work, i can talk to my co-workers during work hours. Marx: worker alienation: workers are alienated in four ways, alienation from products, no control over production process, no creativity, alienated from co-workers. Feminist theory: occupational sex segregation, sexual harassment, discrimination, glass-ceiling, glass escalator, maternal wall; women face barriers when they become pregnant, gender disparities in earnings.
