GWST 3510- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 56 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Gender and Women's Studies
• Course: GWST 3510
• Professor: Jan Kainer

Document Summary

Provides a synopsis of the issues that characterize globalization. Gendered global labour markets: global production-value chains. Global chain emerged as a consequence of global production. Capitalism economy is affecting what is being done at the point of production in paid employment: global care chains-migration; sex trade. Workers are hired to fill what is regarded as the care gap. We see the coordination of new industries and global care markets. Service work (e. g. retail): women"s work in service occupations: they are inserted into the retail economy: almost all service work is highly feminized, racialized, etc. Sex discrimination/sexual harassment: women are hired mostly on their caring capacity. The labour protections for workers in the global economy are very weak. Gender-specific implications of economic restructuring and capitalist globalization. Contradictions between production and reproduction: tension and conflict between a series of production and reproduction. What is apparent is that reproductive work is devalued in practice and theoretical terms.