WGS160Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Fernwood Publishing, Maquiladora, Intersectionality
26 Mar 2016
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Guided reading question: who are the preferred employees across the factories in this week"s readings and how do the readings account for this: burn, shawn meghan (2010/2013). Free trade zones or export processing zones were established in many cash-hungry southern nations to attract transnational factories. Women in developing nations came to be viewed as sources of cheap labour that would lower the costs of production and consequently increase profits. Women are an important part of global supply chains where different pieces of production are spread across geographic locations. Women constitute over 75% of the workers in epzs in cape verde, el salvador, honduras, Women are the preferred labour supply because they can be hired for lower pay with no benefits, job guarantees, or social security. Women"s desperation for work and lack of awareness of their rights, and their seemingly limitless supply have made them the choice factory workers for transnational corporations worldwide.
