The film Life and Debt serves as an example of how globalization can negatively affect countries, particularly developing countries like Jamaica. The article Introduction to Gender and Globalization discusses the topic of corporations and their unskilled female employees. Women represents 80% of the unskilled labor force that corporations hire (Gunewardena and Kingsolver, 8). In the film, there is a place called the “free zone” in which corporations operating in Jamaica do not have to follow Jamaican law and pay its taxes. Employees in the free zone are mostly women and they get paid very little for their work, around $30 a week when converted in U.S. currency. It is unbelievable that these women get paid such little wage because in the U.S.
