SOC425H5 Midterm: 425 Midterm Review
Document Summary
Global cities: immanuel wallerstein: world system theory, core, semi-periphery, periphery. In the world system: saskia sassen: the global city. A new spatial division of labor: production (manufacturing) has been decentralized to the global south, command centers (headquarters) of the transnational corporations have emerged in a few key places called global cities . Labor in the global cities: highly mobile, highly educated professionals, low-paid service workers: women + immigrants. Soc 425: lecture #2 = gender in global factories. Documentary about a girl who started her job at the factory at 13 years old. This factory was the highest paying place, hence why everyone got jobs here. Work with materials that are imported, and they put them together. Foreign companies here for the tax breaks + cheap labour. Didn"t like how they treated the workers : harassed them, contamination everywhere, no water or washroom breaks. Adhesive smells burning plastic: nose bleeds, kidney problems.
