Maquilapolis Response Paper
For this assignment you should watch and write a 2.5-3 page reaction paper to the documentary Maquilapolis (2006). The film is 70 minutes long, so give yourself sufficient time to watch, take notes, and think about what you will write. Your response should use standard font size (10-12 point font) and margins, and does not require any outside research. It should be 100% in your own words.
Maquilapolis is over a decade old, and as you will hear in the video, much of the work done by women like those profiled in the film has been relocated to Asia and other locales where labor is cheaper. Nonetheless, it paints a compelling portrait of some of the issues and opportunities associated with globalization.
Your response paper should include an introduction paragraph and a conclusion paragraph. It should also address and apply 5 of the following concepts/sets of concepts (1 bullet point=1 concept/set) in a minimum of a paragraph each. Be sure to define each concept/term in your own words when you first mention it in your paper:
Capitalism and the profit motive (see p. 415)
Industrialization, the division of labor, and alienation (p. 413)
Transnational corporations, environmental issues, and manufactured risk
White-collar (p. 174) and/or corporate crime (p. 175)
Gender typed work (p. 262) and the feminization of the global workforce (p. 266)
The second shift (p. 268)
The feminization of poverty (p. 214)
Modernization theory and neoliberalism (p. 237)
Finally, this documentary touches on many of the negative aspects of globalization. Based on what you have learned in this course and what you have seen in this film, are there positives to globalization for people like the women featured
