ANTB20H3 Chapter : antb20 week4 and 5 articles
Document Summary
Examines how some mayan youth, factory wage workers, and their families experience and give meaning to new work relations as a result of the ongoing globalization of the labour market. This article builds on the insights of research on factory daughters in export production that have explored the relationship between capitalist exploitation, changes in gendered and family relations and identity. Three ways of modernization and the production of inequalities. Gross inequalities between mayan indians and non-indian elites can be traced back to the colonial period in gautemala. In gautemala, from the colonial period to the present, the state has depended on racial. Otherness as the ideological key to domination of indians by non-indians. Since the work of both men and women was crucial to survival, the relationship between men and women was characterized by a degree of respect and cooperation, albeit organized along a gendered hierarchy of power relations.
