Working is something we all have to do. Only a few privileged individuals have the luxury of not working. We work because we want to have a sustainable living, or to be able to enjoy the little pleasures of life. However now that we live in a post-capitalist society, the definition of work has changed drastically. Work has become a source of instability, unprotected and poorly paid. Workers are now alienated from their work, and are no longer enjoying the work they produce. It has become deskilled and no longer a source of enjoyment and fulfillment. In other words, work has become precarious and challenging to make a justifiable living. Precarious work is a struggle millions of people face every day, however the marginalization and discrimination
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Race is something that is socially defined and not based on the physical attributes of a group of people. On the other hand, racialization describes the processes of attributing racial identities to a social practice, group or relationship that does not identify oneself as such. The authors also discuss three work process that contributes to Racialization in the work place: favouritism, competition and silencing. Each process has played a powerful role in the workplace, and it is evident that racialization is entrenched in the labour market and in Canadian …show more content…
Revising and understanding Canadian history is very important for several reasons. As a nation, we can learn from our past mistakes, it can also help us speculate the future. Canada`s national identity was built by several social factors. Although Canada is a great and successful nation, it does have a prejudice past. Canada was able to become a nation by colonizing a group of people and discriminating against immigrants, women, person with disabilities and visible minorities. The prejudicial Justice System has influenced the way the work is set up today. Although there are regulations that are set up to protect equality seeking groups, much of the time politics are striped of any real power and the economy is what governs all social change. Legislations like the Indian Act, Immigration Act, Multicultural Act etc., were produced for the Canadian governments attempt to integrate and assimilate ethnic groups, however the solution would be to regulate the multi-billion dollar companies that actually have a say on what goes on in the Canadian labour market. The quote by Karl Marx- “History repeats itself, first tragedy, second as farce” is very much accurate, as individuals who are subjugated by such structures we need to first understand how history has impacted our current way of living, secondly it is important that we
Race is something that is socially defined and not based on the physical attributes of a group of people. On the other hand, racialization describes the processes of attributing racial identities to a social practice, group or relationship that does not identify oneself as such. The authors also discuss three work process that contributes to Racialization in the work place: favouritism, competition and silencing. Each process has played a powerful role in the workplace, and it is evident that racialization is entrenched in the labour market and in Canadian …show more content…
Revising and understanding Canadian history is very important for several reasons. As a nation, we can learn from our past mistakes, it can also help us speculate the future. Canada`s national identity was built by several social factors. Although Canada is a great and successful nation, it does have a prejudice past. Canada was able to become a nation by colonizing a group of people and discriminating against immigrants, women, person with disabilities and visible minorities. The prejudicial Justice System has influenced the way the work is set up today. Although there are regulations that are set up to protect equality seeking groups, much of the time politics are striped of any real power and the economy is what governs all social change. Legislations like the Indian Act, Immigration Act, Multicultural Act etc., were produced for the Canadian governments attempt to integrate and assimilate ethnic groups, however the solution would be to regulate the multi-billion dollar companies that actually have a say on what goes on in the Canadian labour market. The quote by Karl Marx- “History repeats itself, first tragedy, second as farce” is very much accurate, as individuals who are subjugated by such structures we need to first understand how history has impacted our current way of living, secondly it is important that we