SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - High School Dropouts
Document Summary
Overhead: since 1976, there has been a shift away from the manufacturing of good, and a huge growt of service industries. 2010, retail(selling things) was the largest part of the canadian economy. Manufacturing sector the 2nd most impo source of jobs. health care social service industries third most impo source of jobs: a growing segment of the service sector , a source of better service sector jobs. . 59 in retail. shows diff in jobs in manufacturing and retail. Deindustrilization: what does it do? transition from manufacturing to service sector jobs. reduces the number of good jobs. increases levels of unemployment (closing down of factories) increases gap between rich and poor. Europe: earnings: growing wage gap between younger and older workers. large amounts of part-time working by young ppl. By the mid 1990"s , 50% were under 25 and significant portion of those were not voluntarily doing part time jobs, it was a necessity.
