User:RiverScullerPDX/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Economic violence

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I teach a college course on The Anthropology of Violence. I am interested in economic violence in multiple forms, and I am curious about how Wikipedians have addressed this issue.

Evaluate the article
I feel that the lead section of the article could be a bit longer and could dwell on a wider variety of types of economic violence. The lead section could also disentangle questions of economic inequality from the evaluation of identities. While gender and sexuality are important issues to consider when discussing how social location affects economic opportunity, other important identities also need to be considered, such as race, region, and nationality.

In terms of content, the article focuses on violence against women and violence against immigrants. It seems to me that future revisions could include a discussion of global economic inequality and the international division of labor. Laborers experience adverse working conditions not only in their host countries but also in their home countries when working for transnational corporations, for example. In addition, the article could fruitfully address the international structures such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund that regulate global trade and the flows of capital. ~