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...a polarity between those who have access to decent schooling as well as jobs and those who do not, a polarity which is following mainly racial lines, due to a long history of segregation in the U.S. (=-=Wilson 1987-=-). 4. The destruction of autonomous, subsistence economies Shiva (1989, p. 1) describes how development "involved the reproduction not merely of a particular form of creation of wealth, but also of as...

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...ngoing erosion of the psychological and physical conditions of life on this planet. I will therefore try to present an integrated perspective, one which moves back and forth, "from margin to center" (=-=Hooks 1984-=-), first and third world, and which is conscious of the many ways categories such as race, class, or sex (to name only a few) interlock. Today, in the wake of the new international division of labor, ...

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...ltural identities, disrupting social structures, and destroying local and regional economic self-sufficiency. This kind of economic imperialism has resulted in the widespread "misery of deprivation" (=-=Shiva 1989-=-, p. 10) with all its many attendant problems. Moreover, because western patriarchal notions have been an integral part of development designs, new sexist divisions of labor have been created by singl...