SOC 371 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sough, Masculinity
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Chapter 2 of women and men at work: gendered work in time and place. Most people devoted their lives to feeding and housing themselves. In the eighteenth century, capitalism transformed how western europeans produced and distributed goods and services. As paid workers, people manufactured products that were sold by middlemen. Industrialization created a new institution: a labor force, comprised of people who work for pay or actively seek paid work. The creation of the labor force split working people into three groups: wage workers, unemployed people who sough paid jobs, nonemployed. Industrialization created two new distinctions between men"s and women"s work roles. The first assigned men to paid work and women to the unpaid work of running a household. Throughout the nineteenth century, the labor force became increasingly male. As employment became urbanized, women"s labor force participation fell, and the labor force became masculinized. The number of people seeking jobs during this people often exceeded the number of jobs.
