SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Class Discrimination, Banana Industry, Structural Violence
10 Feb 2015
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Structural violence refers to how a society can be separated and classed by depriving certain people of their wages and/or basic needs. Maquiladora system, in which labour is completed in honduras for low wages, then exported to the united states. This garners large profits for american companies and leaves the honduran people with little to live off of. The prime example of this is the banana industry in honduras, in which american banana companies owned a large amount of fertile land in honduras, hired. Honduran workers for low wages, and exported the bananas to the united states for large profits. Symbolic violence is similar to structural violence, but it refers more to an arbitrary hierarchy between peoples. This could refer to sexism, racism, classism, and many other kinds of symbolic violence structures that are prevalent in societies across the world including out own. In honduras, it refers to the separation between the maquiladora-style workers and the.
