SOCIOL 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nancy F. Cott, Krahn People, Sex Segregation
20 Nov 2018
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Lecture 5: 17/10/18
The Gendered World of Work
Key Canadian Researchers in Precarious Work
• Dr. Harvey Krahn, Sociology UAlberta
• Dr. Cynthia Canford, Sociology UoT
• Dr. Leah Vosko, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies York U
• Dr. Wayne Lewchuk, Labour studies Mac
Three principles from the work-role model for men:
• Need to work from graduation till death
• Jobs should be their central focus
• Fulfillment comes though work roles
Shift to factory based textile production and industrial capitalism:
• 1. Productive activity linked to production of exchange
o Associated with the marketplace
o Production of use is associated with the home
• 2. Economic dependence on males
• 3. Demise of handicraft system
• IR “revolutionized the work worlds of men and women”
Nancy Cott 2001: role of 19th C ideology
• Cult of domesticity
• Strengthened and solidified women's positioning and function in the home
• Rise in discourse on women's place in the home
• The ideology of the victorian era as that a woman's place was at home
• Belief in the traditional male breadwinner/female housewife
Industrialization: labour force became increasingly male
• 1840: women and children made up 40% of industrial workers
• 1870: ¾ industrial workers were male
• 1890: 17% of women worked for pay outside the home
• 1920:
o 7% of married Euro-American women were in the labour force
o 18% of married Asian-American women
o ⅓ married African-American women
• Single women more likely to work in the factory, married women less likely
because of the idea of separate spheres of life
• The ideology of separate spheres
• Differential meaning for women
o Certain women (minority/racialized) of all ages, married, single, widows,
etc had to work
• “The fact is that certain kinds of women worked outside the home and certain
kinds did not” - based on race and class
Terms
• Occupational gender segregation
Document Summary
Key canadian researchers in precarious work: dr. harvey krahn, sociology ualberta, dr. cynthia canford, sociology uot, dr. leah vosko, faculty of liberal arts and professional studies york u, dr. wayne lewchuk, labour studies mac. Three principles from the work-role model for men: need to work from graduation till death, jobs should be their central focus, fulfillment comes though work roles. Shift to factory based textile production and industrial capitalism: 1. Productive activity linked to production of exchange: associated with the marketplace, production of use is associated with the home, 2. Ir revolutionized the work worlds of men and women . The fact is that certain kinds of women worked outside the home and certain kinds did not - based on race and class. Ideology of the family wage: there was an assumption that you had to pay the male worker more because he had dependents at home to support, thus females employment was seen as auxiliary/supplemental to male earnings.
