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The state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved.
Alienation
the act of fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
Exploitation
a political approach that favours free-market, capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending.
Neoliberalism
the state of being unemployed.
Unemployment
is a term that critics use to describe non-standard or temporary employment that may be poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and unable to support a household.
Precarious work
describes an employment relationship between one employer and one employee that is both full-time and permanent.
Standard employment relationships
productive work for women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.
Decent work
An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Capitalism
a social class or social stratum is a grouping of people into a set of hierarchical social social categories, the most common being the upper and lower classes.
Capitalist class: owns the means for producing and distributing goods.
Class
owns the means for producing and distributing goods.
Capitalist class
a description given to individuals and households who typically fall between the working class and the upper class within a socio-economic hierarchy.
Middle class
is a socioeconomic term used to describe persons in a social class marked by jobs that provide low pay, require limited skill, or physical labour.
Working Class
the characteristic of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed.
Gender
the acknowledgement that everyone has their own unique experiences of discrimination and oppression.
Intersectionality
the process by which a society reproduces itself from one generation to another and also within generations.
Social reproduction
is the concept of compensating employees who have similar job functions with comparably equal pay, regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, or other status.
Pay equity
is a human classification system that is socially constructed to distinguish between groups of people who share phenotypical characteristics.
Race
is the cat of giving a racial character to someone or something.
Racialization
is the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
Racism