SOCIOL 2PP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Family Wage, Chain Migration, Nuclear Family
17 Oct 2017
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Family members working for wages for survival, no longer unit of production unit of shared consumption. Peasants losing access to land no way to feed families/survive. No health and safety regulations; dangerous; no respect to workers. Increase in gender division of labour (men working in public sphere, women in domestic) Women increasingly con ned to domestic role and nancially dependent on husbands. Ideas surfacing about new appropriate roles for men and women. Promoted by middle-upper classes, still impacted poor and working class families. Fox, ch 5: hareven, dynamics of kin in an industrial community . (1880-1930) kin networks among french canadians who migrated to manchester new. The nuclear family lived independently but was immersed in a wider kin network. Kin network provided support (extended beyond adult siblings, kids and parents; multigenerational) resources, labour, etc. You help because you might need help exchange theory. Sometimes individual needs were subordinated to the needs of the family.
