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Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain
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Description for Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain
Paperback. Editor(s): Barndt, Deborah. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; KCF; KNDF; KNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 fulfill 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 globalization. ... Read more
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 fulfill 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 globalization. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Sumach Press Canada
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781894549356
SKU
V9781894549356
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About
Deborah Barndt teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She has worked in social justice and popular education programs in Latin America, the US and Canada over the past twenty-five years.
Reviews for Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain
An incisive and compelling examination of the ways in which women produce, resist and re-invent within the structures and traditions of the increasingly globalized agrifood system. A simultaneously disturbing and hopeful story."" - Patricia Allen, Associate Director for Sustainable Food Systems, University of California