Tangled Routes

by Barndt, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780847699490
• ISBN10: 0847699498
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Tangled Routes follows a corporate tomato from a Mexican field through the United States to a Canadian table, examining in its wake the dynamic relationship between production and consumption, work and technology, health and environment, bio-diversity and cultural diversity. Three case studies--a Mexican agribusiness, a Canadian supermarket, and a U.S.-owned fast-food restaurant--offer a view of globalization from above (corporate profiles), globalization from below (stories of women who plant, pick, pack, scan, slice, and sell tomatoes), and the other globalization (acts of resistance and alternatives to the corporate model).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Roots and Routes	1	(6)
Across Space and through Time: Tomatl Meets the Corporate Tomato	7	(47)
Frames and Filters: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches	54	(28)
Arch Deluxe with a Smile: Women Never Stop at McDonald's	82	(31)
You Can Count on Us: Scanning Cashiers at Loblaws Supermarkets	113	(42)
On the Move for Food: Truckers and Transnational Migrants	155	(10)
Picking and Packing for the North: Agricultural Workers at Empaque Santa Rosa	165	(44)
Crossing Sectors and Borders: Weaving a Holistic Analysis	209	(20)
Cracks in the Corporate Tomato: Signs of Hope	229	(24)
Epilogue	253	(4)
Index	257	(12)
About the Author	269