SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Educational Inequality, Working Poor, Sig Sauer P226
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No longer easy to deal get away with crime. The few who do have jobs have little job security. Low wages no control work is boring/monotonous. Tons of people can do that job no specialized very general. Many people willing to work that job for minimal/low wage. > shift in the economy from manufacturing to service-based. What kinds of jobs are available to them. You have to work with pp aka customers. Trapped in the secondary labor market (p171) Less stable first to go very little room for advancement/move up. Low skill jobs, that require little training -> no upward mobility. What success they have experienced wrt jobs is bc of social networks- informal networking. Someone who knows a guys who knows a guy. Fraught w/danger but may provide more dignity. The premis power and self actualization slick p179. Not have children - some with multi partners. Living with family members on pp"s couches.
