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Free Trade, Alternative Trade and Women in Peru

A First Look

Jane Henrici is an anthropologist who studies gender and ethnicity in relation to poverty, policy, and development. She has conducted research on tourism and exporting and their interaction with ethnicity and gender in Peru, and on policy change and social programs and their effects on poorer women in the US. Henrici is co–author of the forthcoming, How the Other Half Heals: Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and editor of, and contributor to, Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform (University of Arizona Press, 2006). She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Memphis and Affiliate of the Center for Research on Women and the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change. As a Fulbright Scholar to Peru in 2006, Henrici is conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the effects of free trade agreements on Peruvian alternative trading organizations and the women they seek to assist.Address: Department of Anthropology, MH 319, University of Memphis, Memphis. [email:jhenrici{at}memphis.edu]

Transnational policies affect alternative trade organizations that reinvest their profits in poorer communities. As transnational corporations expand, low–wage workers – particularly the women preferentially hired in this sector – initially find themselves with greater employment opportunities. These then decrease over time as traditional income sources and local businesses decline. Based on earlier ethnographic research in Lima, this article provides the framework for a new study to discern how trade regulations might affect projects that assist low–income women in Peru.

Key Words: free trade agreements • alternative trade • gender • nongovernmental organizations • Peru • handicrafts

Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 145-157 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0169796X0602300209


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