Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Wage Labour, Labour Power, Making Money
14 Jul 2016
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Women"s work experiences are shaped by multiple factors (e. g. , gender, race, class, and geographical location) Waged labor has not necessarily been liberating for women working in the global south. Global inequality between developed and underdeveloped world is largely of colonialism. Assumes developed countries have made it and is the ideal that other countries are trying to achieve. Certain countries have been actively made to be underdeveloped . Global inequality created to race to the bottom . The race for who can provide the cheapest labor for the companies. Low wages and lack of labor laws are used to attract foreign companies. Movement of manufacturing jobs from global north to the global south where labor is significantly cheaper. Elson and pearson, the subordination of women and the internationalization of. The people typically working in the factories are young woman. Assumption that if women can go out into the workforce and make their own money, then they can be liberated.
