Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain Women, Food, and Globalization

Name: Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain Women, Food, and Globalization
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ISBN: 9781894549356

ISBN-10: 189454935X

ISBN-13: 9781894549356

Edition: 2004

Authors: Deborah Barndt

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This collection of compelling and original research makes connections in Canada, the US and Mexico among women who work in fast-food restaurants, supermarkets and agricultural production. The fourteen chapters take a critical look at how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has affected these women's working and living conditions, sharpening our understanding of how the workplace has been restructured in order to fulfil consumer demands for tomatoes, exotic flowers and fruits, as well as fast-food burgers and fries. Food activists in Latin America, the US and Canada propose alternatives to counteract the oppressive conditions of free trade and globalisation.

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Canadian Scholars
Publication date: 6/30/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Deborah Barndt is Associate Dean of Environmental Studies at York University. She is a popular educator and photographer and for over 25 years has worked with social justice movements in Canada, the U.S., and Central America. Her photographs have been published and exhibited widely



"Perhaps The World Ends Here"



Introduction: In the Belly of the Beast: A Moveable Feast




The Bigger Picture: Gender and Global Restructuring



Remaking "Traditions": How We Eat, What We Eat and the Changing Political Economy of Food




Whose "Choice"? "Flexible" Women Workers in the Tomato Food Chain




Serving the McCustomer: Fast Food Is Not about Food




Women Workers in the Food System: Stories from Mexico to Canada



The "Poisoning" of Indigenous Migrant Women Workers and Children: From Deadly Colonialism to Toxic Globalization




Mexican Women on the Move: Migrant Workers in Mexico and Canada




"From Where Have All the Flowers Come?" Women Workers in Mexico's Non-Traditional Markets




Putting the Pieces Together: Tennessee Women Find the Global Economy in Their Own Backyards




Serving Up Service: Fast-Food and Office Women Workers Doing It with A Smile




Not Quite What They Bargained For: Female Labour in Canadian Supermarkets




Sings of Hope: Women Creating Food Alternatives



Putting Food First: Women's Role in Creating a Grassroots System outside the Marketplace




Grassroots Responses to Globalization: Mexican Rural and Urban Women's Collective Alternatives




Women as Organizers: Building Confidence and Community through Food




A Day in the Life of Maria: Women, Food, Ecology and the Will to Live




A Different Tomato: Creating Vernacular Foodscapes



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Contributors' Notes


Royalties Dedication, Photo Credits