SOCIOL 1A06 Chapter 11: NS - Chapter 11 – Work and Occupations.docx
11 Apr 2012
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Nonstandard jobs: part-time, contractual, and seasonal work; multiple job holding; work secured through a temporary worker agency and self-employed. The industrial revolution started in england in the late eighteenth century, completing the transition from feudalism to capitalism. Under feudalism most people worked as peasant farmers and a few skilled artisans made tools and a variety of goods. During the ir under feudalism, most farmers produced enough to meet their own needs. The transition to capitalism transformed peasant farmers into wage-earning factory workers. Division of labor expanded, which is to say that work previously done by skilled craftspeople was broken down into smaller components, so semi-skilled workers, who were paid less than the skilled crafts people, could perform factory jobs. Canada"s population is also more educated than it was. Another change in the labor market is the growing reliance on immigration to meet the demand for skilled workers. Women now make up just under half of the paid workforce.
