Labor and the Food System As you learned this week, there is a disjunction between the relatively low prices consumers pay for food in the global north, and the conditions under which people in the global south labor to bring us that food. We’re exploring this disjuncture in this week’s materials, focusing specifically on what […]
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How might you apply what you’ve learned thus far in the course about the development of the modern food system to explain the global economic factors shaping labor exploitation in Thailand and the United States?
Labor and the Food System As you learned this week, there is a disjunction between the relatively low prices consumers pay for food in the global north, and the conditions under which people in the global south labor to bring us that food. We’re exploring this disjuncture in this week’s materials, focusing specifically on what […]
