SOSC 1800 Lecture Notes - Mcjob, Blue-Collar Worker, Double Burden
12 Jun 2013
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Canada is a posy industrial society main sources of innovation are derived from production of ideas not production of goods. Prior to this canada had manufacture based, produced items. Moved away from this, into service sector economy now: blue collar jobs tim horton"s, people serving in jobs service based economy. Exponential growth in service based economy, includes professional technically class: includes internet, doctors, lawyers, people providing service rather than building something. Manufacturing refers to building (i. e. cars or something) If we have professional jobs on one side, what happens to the jobs on the other side: other side of this economy are mac jobs low pay, low status, no benefits, tim. Horton"s jobs, part time jobs increasingly, companies are moving toward part- time employment because they don"t have to pay benefits. Heavily declining in us, coming here too. Increasingly many workers working without collective agreement at risk of being fired at any time, nothing you can do about it.
