WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Free-Trade Zone, Sex Tourism, Agribusiness

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Globalization: process by which the experiences of everyday life are marked by the global diffusion of finances, commodities, and ideas. Neoliberalism: an approach in which control of economic factors is shifted from the public sector. More jobs for women in domestic and care industries. More jobs in the sex tourism industry. *factors of intersectionality geographic locations, race & ethnicity, class, age, urban vs rural* Young women are preferred worker because of the. Enforcement of ilo (international labour organization) standards for labor and human rights. Multinational agribusiness corporation lease/buy tracts of land in developing nations. Corporations take over peasant land and impose commodity food production systems on local family farms. Indigenous women and men rendered invisible and devalued as people with knowledge and skills. Local fieldworker tomasa (68) earns about - a day for back breaking work under hot sun. Reyna indigenous migrant terrible working conditions, no union, no vacation.