SOCIOL 2R03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: New Economy, Fordism, W. M. Keck Observatory
7 Sep 2013
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Institutions are racialized, gendered, and classed by virtue of principles, practices, and structures that construct workplace barriers in advantaging some and disadvantaging others. The new economy: inequalitites of work, working, and the workplace. Men have assumed primary child care in 1/3 of families. Workers with no jobs, jobs with no workers. Insight: defining a new economy: a multifaceted reality. Structural readjustment to the concept of work, working, and the workplace, one that reorders worker lives and life chances along a new set of rules, priorities, and opportunities (not all beneficial to worker) Dramatic shift toward a freelance economy of contract, contingent, and temporary labour as work is farmed out on a piecemeal basis when needed or convenient. Walmart: 40-50% replacement of workers each year: less permanent more contract, temporary work. What is good for the new economy does not really benefit the labour sector.
