Chapter 6: Labor Geographies

Question 1

Living wage campaign

Answer 1

Queen Mary College in University of London

paying workers living wage (staff paid in house)

Question 2

Constraints on labor mobility (4)

Answer 2

1. family
2. love of place
3. political borders
4. other family needing to stay working

Question 3

Migrant worker vulnerabilities

Answer 3

passports can be taken away
language barrier
fear of deportation

Question 4

Woman’s limitations on entering job market

Answer 4

1. commuting
2. pink collar jobs
3. husband’s job moves them
4. technology work from home

Question 5

Patriarchy

Answer 5

assumed superiority of men
authority of men over women
women have to be compliant to men in workplace