WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ernest Hemingway, World Trade Organization, Neoliberalism

• 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 di usion of nances, commodities and ideas. Communications and transportation, mass migration, international business agreements. Neoliberalism: an approach in which control of economic factors is shifted from the public sector to the private sector. Free trade (wto), government deregulation (wages, environment, working conditions), privatization of state-run business. More jobs in the global domestic and care industries. More export production jobs (more transnational factory jobs) Young women are the preferred workers because of presumed manual dexterity and docility, desperation for work, lack of awareness about their rights, seemingly endless supply. Activism: enforcement of international labor organization standards for labor and human rights, ngo work, etc. Multinational agribusiness corporations lease or buy large tracts of land in developing countries. Corporations take over peasant land and impose food production on local farms. Tomato market: gender, race/ethnicity, class, age, urban-rural and marital status.