Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain

Table of Contents

"Perhaps the World Ends Here"
Joy Harjo

Introduction:
In the Belly of the Beast: A Moveable Feast
Deborah Barndt

PART I: The Bigger Picture: Gender and Global Restructuring

Chapter 1
Remaking "Traditions"
How We Eat, What We Eat and the Changing Political
Economy of Food
Harriet Friedmann

Chapter 2
Whose "Choice"?
"Flexible" Women Workers in the Tomato Food Chain
Deborah Barndt

Chapter 3
Serving the McCustomer: Fast Food Is Not About Food
Ester Reiter

PART II: Women Workers in the Food System:
Stories from Mexico to Canada

Chapter 4
The "Poisoning" of Indigenous Migrant Women Workers and Children: From Deadly Colonialism to Toxic Globalization
Egla Martinez-Salazar

Chapter 5
Mexican Women on the Move: Migrant Workers in Mexico and Canada
Antonieta Barrón

Chapter 6
"From Where Have All the Flowers Come?"
Women Workers in Mexico's Non-Traditional Markets
Kirsten Appendini

Chapter 7
Putting the Pieces Together: Tennessee Women Find the Global Economy in Their Own Backyards
Fran Ansley

Chapter 8
Serving Up Service: Fast-Food and Office Women Workers Doing It with a Smile
Ann Eyerman

Chapter 9
Not Quite What They Bargained For:
Female Labour in Canadian Supermarkets
Jan Kainer

PART III: Signs of Hope: Women Creating Food Alternatives

Chapter 10
Putting Food First: Women's Role in Creating a Grassroots System Outside the Marketplace
Debbie Field

Chapter 11
Grassroots Responses to Globalization:
Mexican Rural and Urban Women's Collective Alternatives
Maria Dolores Villagomez

Chapter 12
Women as Organizers:
Building Confidence and Community Through Food
Deborah Moffett & Mary Lou Morgan

Chapter 13
A Day in the Life of Maria:
Women, Food, Ecology and the Will to Live
Ofelia Perez Peña

Chapter 14
A Different Tomato: Creating Vernacular Foodscapes
Lauren Baker

Glossary
Organizations
Contributors' Notes
Royalties Dedication
Photo Credits