SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Precarious Work, Pink-Collar Worker, Domestic Worker
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Soc220 lecture 8 good jobs/bad jobs and workers resistance (unions and strikes) Cranford et al. (2006) the gender of precarious employment in canada (pp. General overview, views, history of unions in canada. Evaluation of extrinsic and intrinsic job rewards. Extrinsic rewards: income and occupation status, employment benefits, personal health risks. Unequal distributions within industries and between occupations: considerations . Associated with intrinsic job rewards (to be discussed next week) Indirect pay or increased security associated with a given job (klh, p. 113). Employment insurance (ei), cpp (canadian pension plan), worker"s compensation (for work related injuries), paid sick leave, maternity/paternity leave. [b]etween 1993 and 2005, a total of 11,124 canadian workers an average of four per working day died as a result of their job . The chances of being killed on the job are still greater than those of being killed on the road by a drunk driver (klh, p. 115).
