SOC 501 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Blue-Collar Worker, Pink-Collar Worker, Wage Labour
18 Oct 2017
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Ch 1: new trends, today, most people work for wages or salary in bureaucratic organizations. In most two-adult households, both partners employed: 3 in 4 workers are in the service sector fewer workers are full-time; 1 in 4 part time, 1 in 6 self employed, 1 in 12 canadians unemployed. Industrialization: the te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:272)al aspe(cid:272)ts of the a(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulatio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)o(cid:272)essi(cid:374)g of a so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)"s resources: capitalism: describes key aspects of the economic and social organization of the productive enterprise. Merchants & royalty in spain, holland, england, and france accumulated huge fortunes by trading internationally (spices, stones, metals, slaves, sugar, cotton) Trading linked africa, asia and us to europe. Feudal europe was a pre-market economy in which the producer was also the consumer; it was also a pre-capitalist economy since wage la(cid:271)ou(cid:396) (cid:449)as (cid:396)a(cid:396)e a(cid:374)d (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess (cid:272)lass (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t (cid:455)et do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)t. Feudal lords accepted rent and expected services (manual labour: industrial capitalism (1700s)
