SOCIOL 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Globe And Mail
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Primary labour market: workers are highly educated, work for large companies that offer security, high wages, benefits, opportunity for advancement, unionization. Secondary labour market: workers tend be unskilled and easily replaced, small companies, no job security, low wages, no benefits, no opportunities for advancement. Precarious employment: bad" job; no job security, pension, or medical benefits. Challenged the distinctions between core/periphery, primary labour market/secondary labour marker. Precarious employment can be found in all sectors, no just service sector positions in the secondary labour market, or in the periphery. Highly educated individuals in academia, medicine ,and law also face precarious employment. Universities relying more heavily on sessional instructors - paid more than minimum wages. 3years of law school followed by one year of articling. Insufficient residency spots for medical school graduates- suicide of medical school graduate robert chu. Unemployment/underemployment for medical specialities- often those that require hospital privileges.
