1. Chandra Mohanty and Maria Mies Women’s Work

2. IDL and SDL International division of labour//sexual division of labour IDL: colonial powers and their colonised territories (raw materials; forced and cheap labour) New IDL: manufacturing outsourced to “developing countries”; rich countries arenas of consumption Women in the Third World: cheapest, most docile labour Women in the First World: mobilised as consumers

3. Feminist Politics in a Capitalist World Feminism and feminist work in a global capitalist order Centrality of capitalism (“almost total saturation”) to our critical work in TN feminism, esp. questions of resistance and solidarity Capital is trans-national—NAFTA, free trade agreements—so must solidarity and organizing be

4. Solidarity Solidarity across differences—women as producers and consumers common experiences—common (material) interests (based on work/structural location) Agency and consciousness Agents rather than victims Politicizing solidarity—based on history, location

5. Women’s Work Women’s work central to capitalism— naturalisation of categories of gender and race Youtube: Maquiladora women - spots from the film MAQUILAPOLIS Rana Plaza: The Deadly Cost of Fashion/Tears in the Fabric Ideological construction of work: femininity, domesticity, heterosexuality Sexual politics of global capitalism

6. Transnational feminism Local and the global—connected, mutually constituting Common material interests (history, common location), not common experiences (ahistorical, culturalist)—a common context of struggle