Tangled Routes - Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail

Klappentext Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, Tangled Routes offers a vivid interdisciplinary examination of the global food system through the journey of a corporate tomato. Through case studies in the three NAFTA countries_Mexico, the United States, and Canada_Deborah Barndt examines the dynamic relationships between production and consumption, work and technology, biodiversity and cultural diversity, and health and environment. The compelling stories of women workers along the tomato trail humanize her analysis of globalization, taking into account the intersections of gender, race, class, family status, and north-south relations.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Barndt, Barndt Deborah
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780742555563
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5556-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, Environmental Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls