FEM 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Main Source, Social Economy, Voluntary Sector

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2109
• Professor: Mythili Rajiva

Document Summary

Gender and globalization in a transnational world. Globalization & trade from the standpoint of garment workers. Globalization = impoverished working people: work reconstructing, job loss, depression of wages. Case study of garment workers in canada. 8th largest provider of manufacturing jobs in country until 1980"s. By 2007 it was one of the smallest industry. Post ww2, workers were immigrant men, but shifted to immigrant women. Garment workers one of the very few unionized female workers w. decent wages. Industry control shifted from manufacturers to transnational chains (walmart). What can/is being done? : research, important to ensure we are keeping up with the studies, education, important to be attentive to differences among women, within the same nation-state (non-shared experiences, choices, varying vulnerability etc. , activism. Women account for the majority of public sector employees whose jobs are being privatized: especially in health & social service sectors. 2010: public sector jobs = main source of unionized jobs for women &