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Tangled routes : women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail / Deborah Barndt.
LIBRA HD6073.F72 M493 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barndt, Deborah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the food industry--Mexico.
- Women in the food industry.
- Women agricultural laborers--Mexico.
- Women agricultural laborers.
- Foreign trade and employment--North America.
- Foreign trade and employment.
- Tomatoes--North America.
- Tomatoes.
- North America.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., [2002]
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 084769948X
- 0847699498
- OCLC:
- 48851209
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