ANTB20H3 Lecture 5: Week 5 Green article notes
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Week 5 notes on mayan youth and rural industrialization in guatemala linda green. These factories, employing thousands of workers rely mostly on young mayan women for their labour force. New economic and socio-political dislocations in this case factory labour by mayan daughters re work in complex ways notions of gender, power, labour, modernity and culture/family for mayan adolescents. Many of these young mayan women and men are caught between 2 worlds. One a cultural worked only partially intact, wholly diminished with scant resources for creating a future. The other modern and globalized from which they are simultaneously excluded, exploited and seduced. Even when women are employed outside the home, their gains have been varied but limited in terms of economic, political or gendered power at the workplace and within the family structure. Studies by mainstream economists argue that women are the winners in globalization, conflating an increase in women"s waged employment with their liberation.
