WS 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Unemployment Benefits, Care Work, Glass Ceiling

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WS 104
• Professor: Melissa Avdeeff

Document Summary

Theft of land vs commodification of land (buying first nations land, selling it for higher price) Disruption/banning of traditional lifestyle (imposing western socialization on first nations) and return offer poor services and infrastructure. Racism is not just disadvantaging one group of people, but privileging another group. Nazko first nation barely can drink their chlorine-filled water. Favours migrants based on wealth and where they"re coming from. Also their age, skills and education (which require a certain amount of money to acquire), prove you have savings. You have to be rich to start a life in uk. Historical/ongoing recruitment of temporary workers from poor countries (often formerly colonized) to fill low paid labour gaps. Building infrastructure (railroads), manual labour (fruit picking), care-work (nanny-ing) Pay taxes and ei (employment insurance) but don"t have access to ei, health care etc. Ei focuses on getting people back to work as quick as possible. Not protected by national labour laws including minimum wage and overtime laws.