SOC275H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nanny, Indentured Servant, Precarious Work
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Intersection of gender, work, and migration: temporary workers in canada, korean women workers (factory and sex work, migrant sex work in canada. It tends to be more feminized, in sectors like clerical work and other types of temporary contract work, low wages as tending toward feminization: tends to over represent women. Precarious work and people of colour: racialized workers and recent immigrants are most likely to find themselves in part-time, temporary work, among part-time workers, women are more likely to be low-paid, single parents (often women) It also affects new immigrants: a majority of single parent homes are headed by women, so, women are unequally affected by this trend. Colour coded labour market: 2006 census data (economic boom, pay gap between racialized and non-racialized canadians is large: racialized. Canadians earn only 81. 4 cents for every dollar paid to non- racialized.
