Month: November 2014

Making EPZ Standards a Priority

Untitled Infographic

 

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwwhd9r4_1c&feature=youtu.be

 

http://www.globalization101.org/export-processing-zones/

http://www.laborrights.org/industries/apparel

https://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/background-sweatshops

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177820/how-your-tax-dollars-are-funding-overseas-sweatshops#

Federal Government Turning “Blind Eye” To Procurement-Related Rights Abuse

Bonacich and Appelbaum. “Introduction: The Return of the Sweatshop” in Behind the Label.

Film: Maquilopolis

(Sorry for the late upload to the blog. I did this all yesterday but didn’t see until today that it never actually posted to the blog)

Exploitation Through Modernization: The Connection Between Technology, the Division of Labor, and Free Production Zones

RDuru_Infographic 3.0

Note: Text readjusted when infographic was generated into jpeg – please see link to clearly read all text.

Link to InfoGraphic: https://magic.piktochart.com/output/3510725-infographic-30

Video:  http://youtu.be/IJc-iEE79oE

Resources:

The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism (By: Manuel Castells). (1989). In J. Roberts & A. Hite (Eds.), The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change (2nd ed.). Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub.

It’s a Flat World, After All (By: Thomas L. Friedman). (2005). In J. Roberts & A. Hite (Eds.), The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change (2nd ed.). Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub.

The International Division of Labor in the World Economy (By: Folker Frobel, Jurgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye ). (1980). In J. Roberts & A. Hite (Eds.), The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change (2nd ed.). Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~shah20m/classweb/pros.html

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~shah20m/classweb/cons.html

Road to Equality

 

EOTO3

By: Danielle Villanueva 

(Click on photo to be redirected)
Link if needed https://magic.piktochart.com/output/3511187-road-to-equality

VIDEO! 

 

For my Each One, Teach One I decided to take a twist on the section on gender equality, and compare it to equal rights movements. My over arching question with this project is

AS DEVELOPED NATIONS MOVE TOWARDS GAY EQUALITY, HOW WILL UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS REACT?

Underdeveloped countries that have been able to stabilize and globalize by taking initiative for their own economy all while assimilating to what developed nations want. Take for example the Philippines – the product of their success can be attributed to the creation of OFWs and complying to the employment needs of other nations. I might correlate their assimilation to the openness and small successes of equal right movement.

Then, let’s take Russia who would rather not get with the globalization movement. They currently have a president that has positioned himself and taken initiative to ensure any pro-gay movements are banned.

As Friedman suspected, the world is flattening. All mediums of media have been used to create awareness of the injustice that is anti-gay. I wanted to use my final each one teach one, as a form of an idea sparker. Under-developed nations have tweaked their equal rights position on women to comply with developed nation ideals. In the years to come, will this be the same reaction for gay equality?  

Food Imports/Exports

cheapfood
video:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pyl62z47j263je8/2014-11-17%2018.27.42.3gp?dl=0

… And my sources:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dairyqueen.com/PageFiles/316/dq-menu-food_double_cheeseburger_02.png%3Fwidth%3D%26height%3D810&imgrefurl=http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/Menu/Food/Original-Double-Cheeseburger/&h=190&w=265&tbnid=VLiyZM386_XB1M:&zoom=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=200&usg=__MOAtMhJflm35BCHYo_SEDSryfCQ=&docid=_5VmmVFIB4rOzM&itg=1&ved=0CKQBEMo3&ei=wHtqVJzxG8qbigLvuIHwCQ

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/us-food-imports.aspx

http://faostat.fao.org/site/342/default.aspx

https://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0851.pdf

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/foreign-agricultural-trade-of-the-united-states-(fatus)/latest-us-agricultural-trade-data.aspx

http://atlas.media.mit.edu/profile/country/usa/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/world/americas/as-cost-of-importing-food-soars-jamaica-turns-to-the-earth.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/09/11

Protests in Mexico

Micaella Flores
Micaella Flores

Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i2Rq3ikWc0

Resources:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/world/mexican-president-faces-nation-tired-of-crime.html?_r=0

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/11/14/ayotzinapa_could_the_disappearance_of_43_students_bring_down_the_mexican.html

http://www.borgenmagazine.com/globalization-in-mexico-part-1-economic-and-social-effects/

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/protests-mexico-over-missing-students-are-biggest-years-n233051

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/09/mexico-demonstration-43-students-confirmed-massacred

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/09/protests-flare-in-mexico-after-attorney-generals-enough-im-tired-remarks

If you have any questions or would like to hear more information, in this recent week, there have been many articles about the ongoing protests and you can do your part by just creating awareness. Feel free to post more information or ask an burning questions that may have come up from this topic.

Micaella Flores

Chemical Exposure: China’s Electronic EPZ Sector

Chemical Exposure China EPZ

Me and my cat make a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_fremfKVGo&feature=youtu.be

-Sydney Volkerts

 

 

Sources:

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/commentanalysis/fairtrade/exportprocessingzones.aspx

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/apple-harmful-chemicals-factories-labour

http://www.electronicstakeback.com/toxics-in-electronics/flame-retardants-pvc-and-electronics/

http://www.internshipschina.com/community/chinainsights2/55-china-insights/669-the-development-of-china-s-special-economic-zones#.VGeqrPTF_mU

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/91-119/pdfs/91-119.pdf

http://ilo.org/public/french/dialogue/download/epzchineenglish.pdf

http://www.greenamerica.org/bad-apple/

Occupational health in the electronic age: disease in the new sweatshop

http://ehstoday.com/safety/bad-apples-are-chinese-workers-being-poisoned-iphones

http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/hexane#section=Top

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/business/worldbusiness/05sweatshop.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Commodified Reproduction or Reproductive Freedom? A Critical Look at Transnational Surrogacy in India

By: Natasha McGlaun

VIDEO:
https://uportland.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/EOTO3ATransnational+Surrogacy/0_nkf5qc1e

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Sources:

Ahmed, Amel. 2014. “Offshore babies: The murky world of transnational surrogacy.” Aljazeera America, Retrieved Nov 13, 2014. (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/11/offshore-babies-thebusinessoftransnationalsurrogacy.html).

Ikemoto, Lisa C. 2009. “Reproductive Tourism: Equality Concerns in the Global Market for Fertility Services.” Law & Inequality 27(2):277-309 (https://login.ezproxy-eres.up.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=44320034&site=ehost-live&scope=site).

Kroløkke, Charlotte H. and Saumya Pant. 2012. ““I Only Need Her Uterus”: Neo-Liberal Discourses on Transnational Surrogacy.” NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research 20(4):233-248 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2012.729535). doi: 10.1080/08038740.2012.729535.

Vora, Kalindi. 2009. “Indian Transnational Surrogacy and the Disaggregation of Mothering Work.” Anthropology News 50(2):9-12 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50209.x). doi: 10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50209.x.