SOCY 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Informal Sector, Subsistence Agriculture, Wage Labour
15 Jan 2017
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Work: an activity that provides a socially valued product or service. Work in canada today: work has changed drastically over the past 100+ years, today in canada: Macro: advancements in work offer more prosperity: inequality vs. Prosperity: conflict vs. cooperation, individual agency vs. social structure. Micro: theories of work, understand our work experiences, critically asses what we are told about work. Schumpeter"s creative destruction - in capitalist society there is a need for progress. Old economic structures are being renewed and replaced. ex. Early 1900s canada: when harry met anne (p. 1-2 of text, farming, large families, high immigration, household economies and start of paid work. Wednesday, january 11, 2017: subsistence agriculture: labour intensive with little technology, vast majority lived on someone else"s land and worked to pay the land owners. Industrial revolution (mid to late 1700s: era of rapid social & economic change: new industries forming, peasants could leave their rented land and move to cities.
