Women Working The Nafta Food Chain

by Barndt, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9781894549356
• ISBN10: 189454935X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-30
• Publisher: Womens Pr

Summary

When we purchase fruit in a supermarket, order take-out or sit down to a meal in a local restaurant, we become the end-consumers of a global production and distribution process that depends heavily on women's labour. How are these women faring? What constructive alternatives can we use to feed our world in a more humane and sustainable way? This collection of original research takes a provocative look at how NAFTA is affecting the food system and its women workers. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

"Perhaps The World Ends Here"	p. 11
Introduction: In the Belly of the Beast: A Moveable Feast	p. 13
The Bigger Picture: Gender and Global Restructuring
Remaking "Traditions": How We Eat, What We Eat and the Changing Political Economy of Food	p. 35
Whose "Choice"? "Flexible" Women Workers in the Tomato Food Chain	p. 61
Serving the McCustomer: Fast Food Is Not about Food	p. 81
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	p. 99
Mexican Women on the Move: Migrant Workers in Mexico and Canada	p. 113
"From Where Have All the Flowers Come?" Women Workers in Mexico's Non-Traditional Markets	p. 127
Putting the Pieces Together: Tennessee Women Find the Global Economy in Their Own Backyards	p. 141
Serving Up Service: Fast-Food and Office Women Workers Doing It with A Smile	p. 161
Not Quite What They Bargained For: Female Labour in Canadian Supermarkets	p. 175
Sings of Hope: Women Creating Food Alternatives
Putting Food First: Women's Role in Creating a Grassroots System outside the Marketplace	p. 193
Grassroots Responses to Globalization: Mexican Rural and Urban Women's Collective Alternatives	p. 209
Women as Organizers: Building Confidence and Community through Food	p. 221
A Day in the Life of Maria: Women, Food, Ecology and the Will to Live	p. 237
A Different Tomato: Creating Vernacular Foodscapes	p. 249
Glossary	p. 261
Organizations	p. 271
Contributors' Notes	p. 277
Royalties Dedication, Photo Credits	p. 280
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