SOC 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Norcliffe, Sex Assignment, Hegemonic Masculinity
1 Oct 2020
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Problematizing gendered divisions of paid and unpaid labour. Shift work and non-standard hours: growing prevalence of shift work and non-standard work hours, challenges taken-for-granted notions about family and household life. Very few people were talking to people"s partners. Transformation in working hours and work schedules: result of non-standard employment in canadian labour markets part-time, short-term, temporary, and contract jobs and own account self-employment (canada, 1994) Increasingly, workers are being asked to work outside the hours of 9-5 pm and during weekends and holidays (evenings/nights part of this non-standard arrangement as well) "existing" research does not provide answers to this question. *blue-collar work may involve manual (skilled, unskilled) labour, e. g. manufacturing, mining, custodial work, farming, commercial fishing, landscaping, pest control, food processing, construction, maintenance, shipping, driving, and many other types of physically laborious work. Shift work | researchers findings may help workers stay alert https://www. amsj. com. au/shift-work-researchers-findings-could-aid-alertness-for-night-shift- workers/ No power in the decision making process.
