SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Swallowing, Family Wage, Parenting
23 Dec 2014
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Women and industrialization: gender division and labour historical perspective. A lot of people were dead by the time they were 40. Implications on gendered implications because people had less time to procreate and socialize children. Things were done 2x as fast: children were born into tight communities, child raising in aboriginal communities was a communal activity. Pre-industrial/pre-european aboriginal *contrast of the aboriginals: hunter/gatherer = nomadic communal small organized themselves in small groups; 40 people that lived together; nomadic moved around form one area to another. Men and women were very even people did not mask well; travel from one place to another carried everything by hand; food and other resources were shared. Women clustered in groups to pick berries and men hunted together. People saw survival activities as a natural way to pursue life. Did not have a lot of meaning for aboriginal peoples. Division of work and place did not make sense to aboriginal people.
