WGS365H1 Study Guide - Petrodollar Recycling, Business Cycle, Progressive Era
2 May 2014
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Feminization of labour was a concept first used to describe the entrance of more women, particularly married women with children, into the wage labour market as a result of industrialization and globalization processes. The problem is that with a market economy transitional toward increase in the service sector, these women are entering in gendered jobs, with relatively low pay, and few benefits if any. Vertical segregation : janelle lozano or hierarchal segregation or "authority gap" The glass escalator refers to the phenomenon of when a male in a predominantly female populated field have an advantage in the workforce. Define the assumption that the capitalism economic system operates like an impersonal machine, geared to the extraction of surplus value, and indifferent to the sorts of people absorbed into its workings. This occurs in the putting out system and assembly line type work (where workers don"t know how to make the entire product).
