Christa Wichterich’s first chapter, entitled “The Global Conveyor-belt” from her book The Globalized Woman: Reports from a Future of Inequality discussed the use of women in the globalized workforce, specifically in sweatshops overseas, where women are the number one physical manufacturers of “textiles, leather and foodstuffs, the production of toys, electronic goods and pharmaceuticals” (Wichterich 2). She talks about major companies and their inclination to move around and do whatever they need to in order to find the cheapest labor possible to expand profect, describing them as “a ship that drops anchor wherever wage-costs are the lowest” (Wichterich 3). The evidence Wichterich provides in order to prove her argument includes several profiles
