SOCY 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Informal Sector, Subsistence Agriculture, Colonial Empire

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 336
• Professor: W.Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Socy 336 lecture # 2 (week 1) Song: peg and awl (carolina tar heels) Made in 1920"s about a shoe maker, a job that was considered as skilled work technology changed the importance of this job because machines replaced workers. Bonus question in exam: pick a song from the lectures and connects it to course material. Outline: what is work, origins of industrial capitalism, canada"s industrialization, theoretical perspectives on work. Internships, volunteer work, domestic and care work, etc. Feminist research is particularly valuable because they identify invisible work. Paid and unpaid work go together: formal vs. informal economies. Economist use gdp to measure and assess a countries economic performance. Example trading care work with neighbours: can work in the informal economy be paid work, shaped by industrialization" and capitalism". How we see work will frame how we understand work and what is work: constantly changing. Idea that work is constantly changing main point.