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SOC 606

Families and Care Work

This course examines the complex and changing relationships among families, care work, and paid and unpaid labour. Families are a site of social reproduction performed as gendered unpaid labour. This course addresses topics such as the gender and racial division of care work and paid labour in different familial contexts, parenting work, pregnancy work, sex work, migrant labour and the rise of "global care chains," and the global division of paid labour and care work.
Weekly Contact: Lecture: 3 hrs.
GPA Weight: 1.00
Course Count: 1.00
Billing Units: 1

Prerequisites

SOC 11B or SOC 103 or SOC 104 or SOC 105 or SOC 111 or Direct Entry

Co-Requisites

None

Antirequisites

SOC 21B, FNF 520

Custom Requisites

None

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