SOCB47H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Canada Pension Plan, Precarious Work, Passive Smoking
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Liladrie: do not disturb/please clean room": hotel housekeepers in greater toronto. Cities where global economic processes are managed. Global cities come from a political theorist -> sasika sassen. Instead of breaking the world up into different countries, we"re going to break the world into these different nodes. 1) white collar (bay street workers) 2) low paid immigrant -> work mostly in the service industry. These people are important for the maintenance of global cities. B/c of the label low-skilled -> low wages is legitimatized. Social reproduction = reproducing social relations, power dynamics, bodies, minds. Example: reproducing minds -> instilling values on children. Social reproduction = gendered because women play an important role in the social reproduction tasks whereas men = material tasks. Reproduction of the gender aspect, racialized immigrant women usually are the ones cleaning hotel rooms. Usually at home it"s usually women who take on these tasks.
