WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: International Monetary Fund, Sex Tourism, Sweatshop

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Process by which the experiences of everyday life are asked by the global diffusion of finances, commodities and ideas: communications and transportation technologies, mass migration, international business agreements, economic activity that crosses national frontiers. Globalization effects on women labor: more export production jobs, increases migration for work, more jobs in the sex tourism industry, more jobs in the global domestic and care industries, trafficked for sweat shop, marriage, domestic, and sex work. Intersectionality: geographic location, race and ethnicity, class, age, urban-rural. Young women are preferred workers because of: presumes manual dexterity and docility, desperation of work, lack of awareness about their rights, seemingly limitless supply. Activism: enforcement of ilo (international labor organization) standards for labor and human rights, global north legislation to enforce, ngo works, activist groups. Globalized food system: gender (women: gentle hands), race and ethnicity, class, age (15-24), urban-rural, and martial status. Feminization of migration: increased in migration of single women and partnered women who migrate without their.