Feminization of Poverty

Globalization is the emergence of a new world order. In future wars may not be military in nature but economic and trade wars instead. Regional trading blocs like the EU, NAFTA, and ASEAN have emerged as have common currency blocs. As these developments occur national boundaries are undermined in favor of free trade and economic development. Corporations are now forced to compete on a global scale while cutting costs, increasing production, and retaining competitive advantage. This often leads many companies known as Multinational Corporations (MNCs) to seek competitive advantage by hiring labor or opening manufacturing facilities in Third World countries. In these countries production costs like labor are less expensive than domestic costs of production. Many organizations favor globalization as a means of achieving corporate goals, but there are many issues to face including the exploitation of human and worker’s rights in foreign countries and the environment. Theorists argue that globalization reaps benefits for the MNC while at the same time spurring economic growth and development in less developed nations where the MNCs invest. Others argue that globalization is responsible for the exploitation of workers and the environment because MNCs do not face as stringent regulations with respect to each in foreign countries. We will now look at sweatshop labor abuses and the feminization of

. . .
s. Mee, Sombat, and Somboon are three factory workers the film focuses on. We see them discuss forced overtime, exposure to hazardous chemicals, poor ventilation, job insecurity, and health damage from inhaling the cotton dust byproduct of the manufacturing process. These women adequately demonstrate that worker rights and human rights violations impact many women in Third World countries. They endure many of these violations as a result of globalization. We see these women make a feeble attempt to unionize, but they are quashed at every turn by corporate and social forces more powerful than they. In his statement on action to eliminate sweatshops and abusive child labor, former President Clinton argued: “Around the world, tens of millions of children are deprived of their childhood and subjected to the worst kinds of harmful and unsafe work. At the same time, many millions of workers toil under conditions that are deplorable and unacceptable” (Clinton 136). Nevertheless women workers often wage a courageous and persistent battle to improve working conditions and thereby the empowerment of female workers. As Women 2000, an international organization devoted to women’s and worker’s rights, notes, such empowerment is necess
. . .

Some common words found in the essay are:
Third World, Liang Shi, President Clinton, China Russia, Emery Thai, Kaden Factory, Rachel Shabi, Sombat Somboon, Lee Gifford, NAFTA ASEAN, human rights, factory workers, women girls, feminization poverty, third world countries, world countries, third world, labor human rights, labor human, workers women, negative impact, impact women, sweatshops abusive child, action eliminate sweatshops, eliminate sweatshops abusive,
Approximate Word count = 1512
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

More Essays on Feminization of Poverty