SOC269- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC269
• Professor: Michelle Maroto

Document Summary

Chapter 3 summary: conceptualizing women"s subsidies to commodity. Wilma a. dunaway offers guidance to help researchers see more clearly how to investigate the variety of forms of household labor that are in commodity chains. The role an individual takes to sustain a household. Hidden labor subsidies from semiproletarianized households: hidden labor subsidies from semiproletarianized households: there are so many nonwaged workers because proletarianization reduces profit level in the economy. Therefore people have never been fully transformed into wage laborers. Capitalists benefit from cheap nonwaged labor and inexpensive material inputs from households: higher-node expropriation of lower-node surplus: when low node households support capitalists at higher node households. Consumers at higher nodes benefit more from exploration of the lower nodes. Invisible costs externalized by commodity chains to households: household reproduction of current and future labor forces: most significant category of costs that are used by the household. It explains that capitalists hide the value of unpaid household labor through child rearing.