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Problem: Impact of International Economic Policy

Topic A

Enloe covers stories of the impact international economic policy has on the lived experience of women in the field of domestic work:

Question I. What is the notion of respectability and "respectable women"?

Question II. What is the Gendered History of the "Double Day"?

Question III. How does the hierarchy of power - race, classed, and gendered - impact solidarity amongst women in the productive economy?

Question IV. What are the benefits of globalized communication and technology in organizing?

Topic B

Question I. Enloe covers stories of the impact international economic policy has on the lived experience of women in the field of domestic work and tracks the production of sneakers globally:

Question II. What parallels exist between the lived experiences of women in both of our Enloe chapters and the Maquilapolis documentary?

Question III. What does the stories of everyday people, offer social scientists, in understanding Economics?

Topic C

• In Enloe's chapter "Tracking the Militarized Global Sneaker" there are a few important takeaways:

Question I. Companies prefer to make their products where there are gender norms that encourage women to be docile workers. They want to hire women who are unlikely to complain about work conditions.

Question II. Companies publicize their efforts on behalf of human rights. However, these companies rarely take responsibility for the human rights abuses that exist in their factories.

Question III. When women organize to challenge gender norms, states and corporations fear that change will make women less willing to accept the conditions in the global factories.

Question IV. Women workers who have mobilized against inhumane conditions have faced further abuse.

Question V. The success of women workers' activism often leads to the loss of their jobs, since the factories can simply move to another country to exploit another group of women.

• For this assignment I want you to track your own sneaker! Look inside your shoe, figure out what country it was made in, and then get to work researching the social, political, and economic realities of the country where the labor took place. Write a 500 words reflection and summary on the information you find, including the following information:

Question I. Country Name and Region; it's political and economic structure

Question II. What labor laws govern work within the borders of the country?

o Minimum wage; safety; number of hours worked; age for work; ability to organize and challenge labor policies or change them

Question III. Have labor strikes occurred in the last 20 years? If so, how were they handled? Were they met with force or with negotiation? If not, are there barriers or rules against labor organizing and striking?

Question IV. What is the social situation like? What is expected in regards to gender roles? Where are women "meant/expected" to be in society, what role are they to play vs the role men are to play?

Question V. What does using a gendered lens; to interrogate the social, political, and economic processes of globalization, and their connection to us via our shoes; do for our understanding of human society, and social relationships? As we are here to engage in social scientific inquiry, tie it all together here.