SOC 3308 Study Guide - Jan Jan, Keystone Pipeline, Wage Labour
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Difference between work and non work: seldom lies with the activity itself and more generally with the social context that supports the activity, experiences derive their meaning and significance in the context of social interpretations. It is capitalism that inverted the world of work and turned it against the workers. Adam smith: work was a necessary evil- individuals have to have some incentive to give up leisure, ppl need incentives to work. Unpaid work: refers to as domestic labour, housework, unpaid activates outside of housework- including house maintenance, etc. Gender: employment opportunities for women have be historically been restricted to domestic like activities: cleaning, working, caring, teaching, critically engage with this idea. Unemployment: marks out the conventional boundary between work and non-work. Contingent work: management has used redundancy to slim down the workforce and remould it into a malleable resource, saying they are malleable means that they are vulnerable and insecure. Classical approches to work: - marx, weber, durkheim.
