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

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Barndt is professor emerita in the faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto. A social justice activist, artist, and popular educator, her photographs have been published and exhibited widely, and her books include Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail and edited volumes VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas, Wild Fire: Art as Activism , and Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain (deborahbarndt.com). 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