SOAN 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Mass Production, Class Consciousness, Import Substitution Industrialization
13 Mar 2016
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Chapter 2: pink collar bajans: working class through gender and culture on the global assembly line. The bonuses, together with overime pay, had boosted their wages for the week by roughly 25%. This view challenges us to think of modernity, not as a singular benchmark set by britain or by europe as a whole, but in a plural form (moderniies), and to see the caribbean, not as backward outpost of the. Modern west, but as an early expression of the economic and cultural complexiies of modernity. * this chapter sets the scene by describing the ways in which recent changes in the transnaional economy and its restructuring of the clerical work as feminized, proletrainized pink-collar sector. This observaion demands that we look simultaneously at their engagement in producion (both formal wage-earning jobs and informal. Ater hours income-generaing labor) and the importance of new pracices of consumpion in ways that are seldom brought together in analyses of globalizaion.
