[news] Capital Exploits and Prerogatives: Women’s Labour and Bodies in the World Tea Affair.

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Jark SS. Krysinski. Simon Fraser University.

The controversy in this paper is that the number #1 consumed beverage in the world -- namely Tea -- is wrought with the most conflicting human rights issues. The central thesis in this paper implies that the power of cheap female labor (already classed, raced, gendered) serves as a differential equation for super-profit schemes, serving the major obsession of the Plantocracy of the tea estates around the world. This contrasts sharply from the elitist Western Tea shops charging 7$ for a pot of tea whilst the daily wage of a tea picker is merely a fraction of that!

  


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