GWST 3510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reproductive Health, Picketing, Egalitarianism
15 Oct 2016
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October 7: regulation and resistance: moral regulation and social reform in canada, 1880-1920. Pre-industrial settler society interdependence; productive work gender-socialized tasks. Industrial/wage housework" named; men did less; women more; doctrine of separate spheres; cult of domesticity. Gender divisions of work organize all societies. Women were not accepted as full fledged citizens of the public world. People engaging in wage work in order to survive. Working class was just beginning to develop in canada. Women are being treated differently than men. Children are brought into manufacturing as the lowest paid workers. Employers took advantage of vulnerable women/children/racialized workers ! deskilled jobs, boring jobs, dirtiest jobs. Women were the ideal candidates to fill the jobs. Employers pay the women less because they were backed by patriarchal ideals. Development of family wage economy strategy for workers to defend themselves from capital exploitation. There had to be someone at home to do the household labour assigned to married women.
