LABRST 1A03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sept

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Getting by: role in family, stretching resources. There are still a lot of cases of a lot of training of apprentices. New groups of workers such as semi-skilled machine. Most of the skill is in managing the machine. Working class women 18-24 can be factory workers and do a lot of the unskilled work (majority are young) Separation of spheres- separation between domestic sphere and the public sphere. The getting by the day to day level was a struggle. Breadwinner"s wage- is a wage sufficient to support the rest of the family. Vast majority of workers did not make the breadwinner"s wage. Means families need to strategize how to keep going. What worried many families is if the father got injured, the family would have little or no chance of getting by. States and government spent little money of relief funds. Did believe in charity and did give out some suppoty.