GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Precarious Work, Urban Geography, Gated Community
12 Jan 2017
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Expansion of temporary and part-time work, low-wage service work & mcjobs . Post-fordism and the dismantling of the welfare states. The racialization and gendering of precarious work. All of the above particularly pronounced in global cities. Unite worker union, they fought for the workers who had precarious jobs. Suburbanization of poverty as the downtown gentri es. Growing length of the journey to work. A study of geographic concentration of family poverty in toronto over the past two decades. Poor families used to live in mixed-income neighbourhoods. They are now concentrated in a certain area or neighbourhood. Accumulation of wealth in a community is no longer true, we see economic segregation instead. Racialized and gendered geographies of precarious work. A quarter in a city inhabited by a minority group or groups, usually as a result of economic or social pressures.
