SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chain Migration, Piece Work, System On A Chip
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Fox chapter 7: dynamics of kin in an industrial community by hareven: kin networks among french canadians who migrated to manchester, new hampshire. Describes the cult of domesticity that emerged with industrialization. Fox chapter 9: putting mothers on the pedestal by margolis: outlines the new ideas about mothering and childrearing that developed with industrialization. Study of working class life in 19th c montreal based on archival records. Changes in families and economy during 19th c: If necessary, all the members of the family worked for wages: no longer a unit of production, now a unit of shared consumption. Families reliant on wages, but capitalism also reliant on families: late 18th c, early 19th c - industrialization emerges. First in england, people losing their land & their means of production. Need to move to more urban centres to work for wages. Quickly developed in other countries as well. Emergence of two classes: working and capitalist classes.