SOCB54H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Complex Number, Unemployment Benefits, Wage Labour
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Very hard to generalize across a century in which remarkable stability in the value of money concealed enormous changes in every other economic and social factor. An unskilled day-labourer in 1867 might earn a dollar a day for a ten-hour day, six days a week. Highly skilled craftsman might earn three times as much. (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:449)age (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e half that of a (cid:373)a(cid:374)- as little as thirty-five to sixty cents a day. Employers offered no paid holidays, and they rarely felt obligated to make provision for sickness, injury, or old age except to dismiss or reduce the wages of workers who were past their prime. Working class family lived always in the shadow of diasaster introduction. In the early 1900s the family left to homestead in canada. Read story, reflecting on this story it is hard not to be struck by the huge change that has occurred in just a few generations. Families with 11 children are not the norm.
