Gender and globalization
Background:
What becomes visible about the gendered and racial nature of waged employment in globalization, if we start our analysis from the embodied lives and experiences of women and men that our authors underscore?
The purpose of this essay is to: engage with the perspectives and experiences of women (and men, as some of our authors address) working in global factories, commercial agriculture, and in the service sector; and, utilize these perspectives as the point of entry to question the dominant description of globalization.
The Essay:
If the entry point of our understanding and consciousness about labor in globalization were the perspectives and embodied experiences of women working in factories, commercial and export agriculture, and the service sector (hotels, tourism, private households), or the ‘bodily scars’ from economic decline, what would our analysis of the prospects for waged-employment, livelihood options, economic well-being, and gender in globalization look like?
In your essay, be sure to address the patterns of racial and gendered social hierarchies that become visible when we center the lives of women working in spaces of global capital (factories, farms, hotels, and private households).
Articles/Chapters: **Be sure to include all of these**
“Freedom for Whom? Globalization and Trade from the Standpoint of Garment Workers.” Roxana Ng. 2013. Women in a Globalizing World: Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace.
“Bitter Cane: Gendered Fields of Power in Sri Lanka’s Sugar Economy.” 2010. Nandini Gunewardena. Signs 35(2): 371-396.
“The Other Side of el Otro Lado: Mexican Migrant Women and Labor Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture.” 2010. Kerry L. Preibisch and Evelyn Encalada Grez. Signs 35(2): 289-316.
“The Seed and the Earth: The Colonization of Regeneration.” Vandana Shiva. 2013. From Women in a Globalizing World: Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace. M. (Read pages 214-217 from this chapter)
“Introduction.” In Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy. Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. Owl Books: New York. 1-13. M.
Below are from the book: The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities
Ch 3: “Disrupting Subordination and Negotiating Belonging: Women Workers in the Transnational Production Sites of Sri Lanka.” In The Gender of Globalization.
Ch 8. “Gendered Bodily Scars of Neoliberal Globalization in Argentina.” In The Gender of Globalization.
Ch 9. “Geographies of Race and Class: The Place and Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers.” In The Gender of Globalization.
Ch 10. “Sticking to the Union: Anthropologists and ‘Union Maids’ in San Francisco.” In The Gender of Globalization.
Ch 11. “The Caribbean is on Sale: Globalization and Women Tourist Workers in Jamaica.” In The Gender of Globalization.
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