SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Underemployment, Wok, Neoliberalism
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In canada, high rates of wealth and income inequality are largely due to: the weakness of tax laws, the loss of working class and middle class jobs through globalization, automation, and de-unionization. Class inequality is different from other inequalities: they are unlike gender groups, which have distinguishing physiological features, unlike racial and age groups, which have distinguishing characteristics, unlike ethnic groups, which have distinguishing cultural features. Therefore : class differentiation requires an awareness of class differences and interests, class consciousness must be socially constructed, people have to learn class identities and class distinctions, class conflict and class resistance are hard to maintain. The industrial revolution: the beginning of modern class relations: present day class inequality is the result of many historical forces, including advances in technology. In preindustrial societies people worked collectively n agriculture, in rural communities: work was inseparable from family and personal life.
