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SOC 606
Work and Families in the 21st Century
Family life is shaped by the relationship between the division of labour in the home and employment responsibilities in the workplace. This course is designed to explore how divisions of labour in the home and the workplace have changed over the years. The course looks at topics that include the gender and racial division of labour in the paid workforce and the home, motherhood, fatherhood, pregnancy work, as well as informal and marginal paid work such as sex work and migrant labour.
Weekly Contact: Lecture: 3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1
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*List may not include courses that are on a common table shared between programs.
- Child and Youth Care Professionally-Related Table I
- Criminology and Sociology Professional Table II
- Early Childhood Studies Professionally-Related Table I
- English Professionally-Related Table IV
- History and Sociology Double Major Professional Table II
- Midwifery
- Minor in Family Supports and Community Practice
- Minor in Labour and Employment Relations
- Minor in Sociology
- Nursing Collaborative Professionally-Related Table I
- Open Elective Table
- Philosophy Professionally-Related Table IV
- Politics and Governance Professionally-Related Table IV
- Politics and Governance_Sociology Double Major Professional Table II
- Psychology Professionally-Related Table IV
- Public Administration and Governance Professionally-Related Table I
- Social Work Professionally-Related Table II
- Sociology Professional Table II
