Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Intensive Animal Farming, North American Free Trade Agreement, Apidae

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1020E
• Professor: Jen Chisholm

Document Summary

Key terms and themes: globalization, nafta- north american free trade agreement, gendered division of labour, maquiladoras. Canada lost 30,000 jobs in the garment industry alone. The gender impact: globally, work is still organized and distributed based on gendered assumptions, nafta had a particularly devastating effect on the garment and manufacturing industries, also agricultural industries. This is why its often cheaper to buy strawberries from chile, than strawberries grown in ontario. Gender and agricultural work: farming industry largely male-dominated, thus deregulating agricultural trade particularly threatens the livelihood of men, globally, agricultural work is still primarily organized around small-scale, family farms. Maquiladora: nickname given to factories in mexico, work in maquiladoras is typically assembling electronics, sewing garments, or packaging products, exist in export processing zones (epz"s) typically along the us/mexico border. Resistance and change: numerous examples of women collaborating in an effort to change unfair and discriminatory workplace practices, women lead the charge for corporate and government accountability.