SOSC 1700 Study Guide - Final Guide: Color Blindness, Racialization, Ableism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1700
• Professor: Elizabeth Brule

Document Summary

03/31/2016 (cid:1: tomato trail- in her work, fruits of injustice: women in the post-nafta food. System, deborah barndt, illuminates the inequalities surrounding around globalization and neo- liberal trade. Migrant worker from mexico, typically women are moved across borders in order to harvest food in canada and america. Brandt highlights how migrant workers are being shipped from the global south to global north in order to pick tomatoes at a low wage, even though tomatoes need to be picked carefully, making it more time consuming. Brandt also argues that the migrant female workers have become a commodity and that the tomatoes are treated with more care then the female migrant workers. While canadian female workers still face forms of discrimination and bias, female mexican workers are the most exploited group in the process: body shaming- in her work, becoming the fat girl": acquisition of an unfit identity,