SOCI 2270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blue-Collar Worker
26 Jun 2018
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CHAPTER 8: Connecting Households, Workplaces, State Policies, and Communities
Standard Employment Relationship – a worker has continuous full-time employment with the same on-
site employer for all or most of their working life.
Gender and Paid Work
- Sharp increase in the employment rate of women with children
- Women’s average hourly wages remain lower than men’s in all occupations
- ^ most significant in blue collar occupations (70-73 cents per every $1)
Gender and Part-Time Work
- Mainly men who work in full-time continuous work
- Women are attracted to part-time service sector job because of their responsibility for
children/caring for the elderly.
The Rise of Non-Standard Employment
- Part-time, temporary (short contracts, casual, seasonal) or self employment
- known as contingent employment, precarious employment, temporary employment
- involve low wages, insecure working conditions, limited access to social benefits and statutory
entitlements (EI, maternity/parental leave)
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Unpaid Work
- housework, child care, community/inter-household work, subsistence work, informal caregiving,
volunteer work.
Housework:
- not a universal and homogenous category
- housework has changed due to labour-saving devices (dish washers, dryers)
Child Care
- improved technology has not had an impact on caring activities
- care of children cannot be replaced by technology
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Document Summary
Chapter 8: connecting households, workplaces, state policies, and communities. Standard employment relationship a worker has continuous full-time employment with the same on- site employer for all or most of their working life. Sharp increase in the employment rate of women with children. Women"s average hourly wages remain lower than men"s in all occupations. ^ most significant in blue collar occupations (70-73 cents per every ) Mainly men who work in full-time continuous work. Women are attracted to part-time service sector job because of their responsibility for children/caring for the elderly. Part-time, temporary (short contracts, casual, seasonal) or self employment known as contingent employment, precarious employment, temporary employment involve low wages, insecure working conditions, limited access to social benefits and statutory entitlements (ei, maternity/parental leave) Unpaid work housework, child care, community/inter-household work, subsistence work, informal caregiving, volunteer work. Housework: not a universal and homogenous category housework has changed due to labour-saving devices (dish washers, dryers)
