Thesaurus
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- SCOPE NOTE: explains HOW the term has been used to index items in the library database; defines the term
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- BROADER TERM: broader or more general terms or phrases
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Thesaurus: 1285 entries.
QUEBEC (Search for related entries in the library)
RACE (Search for related entries in the library)
Scope Note: A social construct used to categorize people based on physical characteristics. Race is tied to racialization, whereby racial categories are embedded in both daily interactions as well as ideologies, policies and practices.
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RACIAL MINORITIES
RACIALIZATION (Search for related entries in the library)
Scope Note: A process of signification in which human beings are categorized into "races" by reference to real or imagined phenotypical or genetic differences (Miles 1987:7).
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RACIALIZED GROUPS (Search for related entries in the library)
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RACIALIZED WORKERS (Search for related entries in the library)
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RACISM (Search for related entries in the library)
Scope Note: A system in which one group of people exercises power over another or others on the basis of socially constructed 'racial' categories. Racism manifests in 'everyday' and systemic forms.
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RAISES
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RATE OF PAY
Scope Note: Along with wages, broadly refers to the different ways of measuring how people are paid, mainly through an hourly rate of pay wages and salaries before deductions.
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RDO
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