SOC366H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Devaluation, Sexual Differentiation, Machismo
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Work: activities that produce goods and services for one"s own use or in exchange for pay or support. An important form of nonmarket work in modern societies is domestic work work that people do for themselves and members of their household. The distinction between market and nonmarket work is a by-product of industrialization. The average person consumed what he/she produced, and few people were paid for their labour. Only with industrialization and the development of capitalism was work equated with paid activity. As more workers were drawn into paid jobs, people increasingly treated paid work as the only. Real work; the unpaid work that people did in their own homes became devalued or invisible. Defining work as paid production excludes much of the work done by people in developing countries as well as all of the work that women and men perform at home for their families. Sex: a classification based on human biology.
