Labour

The main focus of this lecture was on labour. This lecture was hugely relevant to my topic of cooking. Labour has a huge relationship with cooking as it is placed under this heading as opposed to work and play due to the simple fact that we need to cook in order to prepare food in which to eat, stay health and stay alive therefore making it an extremely essential necessity  of life. (Sunderland, 2010).This was one of the biggest things that I took from this lecture because in the past I have understood labour to be something that I did not enjoy doing and that was both energy and time consuming

Green (1968), describes the relationship between labour and food as "the gathering of nourishment, however, is not only necessary; it is also endless. Once done, it must be done again. Answering as it does to the requirements of life itself, it can end only with the end of life. The purpose of this activity is to provide for the seeds of consumption: food is taken from the earth, after all, in order to be consumed". This quote also backs up the content that was involved within the lecture. Labour that is carried out generally leaves no trace, because they have to be done over and over again in order to exist. This is clearly relevant within cooking .It involves the extremely repetitive processes of cooking ,  one cooks a meal only to have to cook again when one is hungry or when demands are expected to fulfil a role for example a house wife has need s to meet. Once the meal is consumed there is nothing to show for it except a satisfied tummy of the people who ate the meal.

Green, T.F. (1968) Work, leisure and The American schools. New York: Random House.

 

Sunderland, J. (2010). Adaptive living occupation: BT127001 [Lecture notes]. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Polytechnic, Department of Occupational Therapy.