SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unemployment Benefits, Factory System, Opium Den
3 Nov 2015
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Early life in canada: when youth were separated from adults (2 groups in society) Economy and society: how the economy was structured, how society was structured. Discovery of childhood in 1600s in europe: monks and elites were the only people who were educated in this period, young people are targets in education. Economy was shifting to cities in the mid-1800s: due to immigration, ireland and potatoes. Government would set people up with land: especially in quebec, good land was hard to find, industrial revolution taking place in the usa before canada. Kids were the first to get fired when their jobs were replaced by technology: economic change and lead to social change, no employment insurance, families drifted to illegal means for money like theft, prostitution, drugs etc. Reform response: people thought they were victims, instead of a threat to society, seen as not children but also not adults, seen as having less.
