Revisiting Women Wage-workers in Mexico's Agro-industry
Author: Kirsten A. de Appendini
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13:
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Mexico in Transition
Author: Gerardo Otero
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1848137338
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMexico in Transition provides a wide-ranging, empirical and up-to-date survey of the multiple impacts neoliberal policies have had in practice in Mexico over twenty years, and the specific impacts of the NAFTA Agreement. The volume covers a wide terrain, including the effects of globalization on peasants; the impact of neoliberalism on wages, trade unions, and specifically women workers; the emergence of new social movements El Barzón and the Zapatistas (EZLN); how the environment, especially biodiversity, has become a target for colonization by transnational corporations; the political issue of migration to the United States; and the complicated intersections of economic and political liberalization. Mexico in Transition provides rich concrete evidence of what happens to the different sectors of an economy, its people, and natural resources, as the profound change of direction that neoliberal policy represents takes hold. It also describes and explains the diverse forms of resistance and challenge that different civil-society groups of those affected are now offering to a model the downsides of which are becoming increasingly manifest.
Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain
Author: Deborah Barndt
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 189454935X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen we purchase fruit in a supermarket, order take-out or sit down to a meal in a local restaurant, we become the end-consumers of a global production and distribution process that depends heavily on women's labour. How are these women faring? What constructive alternatives can we use to feed our world in a more humane and sustainable way? This collection of original research takes a provocative look at how NAFTA is affecting the food system and its women workers. Book jacket.
Food and Culture
Author: Carole Counihan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 0415521033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reader reveals how food habits and beliefs both present a microcosm of any culture and contribute to our understanding of human behaviour. Particular attention is given to how men and women define themselves differently through food choices.
Shifting Burdens
Author: Shahra Razavi
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1565491432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK* Details the effects of structural adjustment policies imposed on agriculture, and their effect on gender relations within rural areas in the developing world * Empirically grounded case studies from India, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda, and Vietnam Over the past ten years neoliberal policy shifts in rural development across the globe have reduced the role of government, consigning the costs of services to the rural poor themselves. But what are the gender effects of this change? The contributors unravel the ways in which economic and social structures, institutions, and policy outcomes are mediated by gender as a social relationship, and consider the degree to which a "diversified livelihoods strategy," touted as the means by which rural families are struggling to improve their standard of living, accurately describes what is taking place on the ground.
Structural Transformation and Rural Change Revisited
Author: Bruno Losch
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2012-06-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0821395130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on new evidence from in-depth field surveys, this book addresses the unique situation of countries that remain deeply engaged in agriculture, and proposes a set of policy orientations which could facilitate the process of rural change.
Everything's for Sale
Author: Peter Gibbon
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13:
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Author: Gary Clyde Hufbauer
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780881325591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!
Author: M. Jacqui Alexander
Publisher: Edgework Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 772
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! is an indispensable guide to the progressive politics of race, class, and gender in the new millennium from leading feminist writers of our time. Collecting essential writings of the last two decades right through the events of September 2001, the anthology provides a definitive reference work for academics and activists committed to deep and unflinching inquiry into the mechanisms of global justice in the post-Cold War world. This timely volume offers uncompromising examinations of the exploitation of Third World women under NAFTA; the real costs of the Colombian drug war; the inner dynamics of white supremacy; Zionism and anti-Semitism; ecological racism; indigenous sovereignty struggles in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico; and much more. Contributors include Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Edwidge Danticat, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, Angela Y. Davis, Winona LaDuke, and vital, new voices from an emerging activist culture. Book jacket.
Tangled Routes
Author: Deborah Barndt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780742555570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere does our food come from? Whose hands have planted, cultivated, picked, packed, processed, transported, scanned, sold, sliced, and cooked it? What production practices have transformed it from seed to fruit, from fresh to processed form? Who decides what is grown and how? What are the effects of those decisions on our health and the health of the planet? Tangled Routes tackles these fascinating questions and demystifies globalization by tracing the long journey of a corporate tomato from a Mexican field to a Canadian fast-food restaurant. Through an interdisciplinary lens, Deborah Barndt examines the dynamic relationships between production and consumption, work and technology, biodiversity and cultural diversity, and health and environment. A globalization-from-above perspective is reflected in the corporate agendas of a Mexican agribusiness, the U.S.-based McDonald's chain, and Canadian-based Loblaws supermarkets. The women workers on the front line of these businesses offer a humanized globalization-from-below perspective, while yet another "globalization" is revealed through examples of resistance and local alternatives. This revised and updated edition highlights developments since the turn of the millennium, in particular the deepening economic integration of the NAFTA countries as well as the growing questioning of NAFTA's consequences and the crafting of alternatives built on foundations of sustainability and justice.
