SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stelco, Craft Unionism, Industrial Unionism
3 May 2019
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Getting by in hard times, hamilton as a case study, post-war prosperity to economic decline. Class, racialization, and gender: being ordinary", racialization defined, the gender contract. How working people coped with economic change: men interviewed and their experiences, male and female steel workers. How do families cope under restructured economic markets. Identity, renegotiate class, security: things are getting worse for working-class people. Increase use of computers and machines: wage rate going down, workers working hard, but not gaining higher wages, major cutbacks in social programs, family allowance stopped in 1992. Lower in unemployment insurance, pensions, etc: free-trade, deregulation of labour markets (length of work week), employment/labour laws change, privatization of state properties, intensify competition between companies. Italian/ polish / german = not the same: racialization, categorizing based on cultural/racial traits that causes you to change how you act towards them, attached to british colonial race, historical of subjugation of certain groups at certain times.
