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Tangled Routes - Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail book Jun, 2002 Organization - Environmental Studies, York University Author - Deborah Barndt Bibliographic Reference: Tangled Routes : Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, Garamond Press, Aurora, Ontario, 2002 Resource Link: http://www.garamond.ca/Barndt.html This resource focuses on the following subjects : Main Category This resource is aimed at the following scope: • North America Teaser Blurb: Where does our food come from? The fact that we even have to raise this simple question raises many other questions. Very few of us in the northern hemisphere have any sense at all of the processes that bring food to our table, nor of the people who grow it, process it, and move it along the way. The tomato is a perfect "entree" to a process of cross-border research and popular education around the complex pheneomenon and often confusing concept of globalization. This book stems from a five year commitment to research, education and action called the Tomasita Project. TANGLED ROUTES traces the tomato trail from a Mexican farm field to a Canadian supermarket, examines the significance of fast food chain McDonald's and Loblaw's supermarket conglomerate, looks at workers who serve the global food system, a trucker and a migrant picker in Ontario, and at the role and position of women within the Mexican agroexport industry The experiences of women workers in different sectors of the food chain between North and South are examined, and the book concludes with alternatives and a framework for "the other globalization" through collective action and transnational coalitions. |
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