SOCI 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Contingent Work, Iatrogenesis, Multitrack Recording
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Canada: founded on exploitation + racism of minority groups, socially constructed as racially + culturally inferior, temporary workers = long-standing participants in canadian communities, schools, workplaces, don"t enjoy full benefits/protections of citizenship. How many types of work can you list: part-time work, full-time work, casual work, temporary, flex time, seasonal, telecommuting, contract, multi-tracking, job sharing. Employment vs. unemployment: early days: government interested in unemployment rate, but , overly simplistic, forcing only 2 answers without consideration of other categories. Cibc employment quality index: quality of work: combines data from statistics ca on three variables, self employment to conventional paid-employment, characteristics of full-time jobs, distribution of part + full-time employment, precarious employment --> reflects health of economy. Rise of part-time jobs in ca: risen significantly more than full-time positions in last 30 years in ca, often associated with lower quality of work.
