SOCB47H3 Lecture : Week 10 Lecture Notes
Document Summary
Lack of technology causes poverty thus term underdeveloped . World systems theory: globalization ongoing for 500 years, global capitalism always means exploitation of some nation(s) by others. Inequality of nations will not end until capitalism is overturned: an argument similar to marx www. notesolution. com. You create jobs in one place while removing jobs elsewhere and overall reduce wages. Ideological -> assumption that third world workers are harder working, and that women are more submissive and easier to supervise. Marginalizing actions and practices: force and harassment used to prevent workers from unionizing. Lemington; greenhouse capital in canada: mostly employs mexican migrant workers. The contractors (growers) provide housing but often its overcrowded, in one example one house had 9 men living. Program only accepts married men, who are most likely to return back to mexico and least likely to take up residence here in canada illegally.
