Benjamin Kahn – The Resisting Inequality Project

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

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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

Shell’s Exploitation of the Oil Fields in the Niger Delta

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http://youtu.be/QWWwsLDte6w

By Cole Thomas

The Internation Monetary Fund (IMF): Trapping Nations in Debt

The infographic presented above engages Cardoso’s explanation of underdevelopment and the information about the International Monerary Fund (IMF) presented by Vreeland. Cardoso really focuses on underdevelopment as the byproduct of imperialism in which conquering nations were able to receive a longer advantage over nations conquered by imposing regulations of unfair trade and systematic eexploitation Vreeland provides an overall explanation of the IMF that details the way in which the international loaning organization delegates the funds that are loaned out.

Using the information from both readings, I explore the consequences of utilizing debt to develop. Many of the points listed as consequences were illustrated in the movie, Life and Debt. However, in the interest of brevity, this infographic seeks only to introduce the consequences of developing through debt. In this way this infographic is a tool for individuals to 1) apply to any country that utilize IMF funds, and 2)encourage deeper analysis into the effects the IMF has.

Video: http://youtu.be/Cmit0VTdN8M?list=UUgzGkDdFTpHlLiqCCykLS9w

Resources:

Dependency and Development in Latin America (By: Fernando H. Cardoso). (2008). 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 Monetary Fund (IMF) [By: James Vreeland]. (2012). In F. Lechner & J. Boli (Eds.), The Globalization Reader (4th ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Overfishing an Urgent Issue being Driven by Globalization

Video link: http://youtu.be/jvUhjnl1aW8

– Cole Thomas

Concentrated Wealth and Economic Growth

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The Global Care Chain: The Chains of Exploited and Alienated Caregivers and Housekeepers

By: Raeshell Duru

Womanhood has long been synonymous with domesticity. Even today, as the number of women continues to increase in the the workforce, a woman is still expected to balance the demands of work and home. Women essentially are expected to become 24 hour working machine. For many women, especially here in the United States, the answer to this dilemma is to seek help. In this one conscious decision of one woman to pay or elicit help, she pulls another woman away from her home leaving a gap in her home -which then causes her to have to seek help and the chain begins. No women in the chain escapes alienation and exploitation – even the original link may become alienated from her home or children. Exploitation occurs as the pay decreases as you go down the chain – which inevitably leads to some source working for free (such as a daughter taking care of her younger siblings or old grandmother taking care of her grandchildren). Each woman is integral part of the previous links ability to do the given job of domesticity – but why must this process be so closely linked to womanhood? If men were involved in the demands of home wouldn’t more families be able do with caregivers and housekeepers? The answer I offer up is: YES!!! In making men a part of the home – not just members in the home – this vicious cycle that pulls millions of immigrant women from their homes and let’s their children know them are more than breadwinners.

Sources for the Infrographic:

Global Commission on International Migration (2005, September ). Global Care Chains: A Critical Introduction. Global Migration Perspectives, 44, 1-19. Retrieved from http://www.refworld.org/docid/435f85a84.html

Goldberg, M. (2009, September 3). The Real Nanny Diaries. The American Prospect. Retrieved from http://prospect.org/

UN Women (2011, May). Concept Note of Gender and Migration: Care Workers at the Interface of Migration and Development. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/Headquarters/Media/Stories/en/conceptnotegenderandmigrationcareworkersatpdf.pdf

Indonesian Deforestation Accelerated by Globalization

By: Cole Thomas

One major yet often ignored issue regarding neoliberal globalization is the destruction of the environment. Unfettered capitalism places such pressure on countries to produce certain products. Often, this can come at the expense of degrading land and practicing dangerous environmental production methods in order to both save money and maximize production. Indonesia offers a prime example of this negative aspect of globalization where their tropical forests have been devastated all in the name of producing more and more palm oil. On the bright side, there is a project which offers some hope which involves substituting forests lands with degraded lands as the foundations for palm oil plantations.