ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how capital investments, in the form of land acquisition, infrastructure projects and housing markets, serve as pathways to development through the exploitation of gendered, raced and classed subjects. We outline basic approaches to understanding development pathways and offer insights into how subjects are enrolled and exploited as waged laborers. We argue that the mechanisms of development outlined in Chapter 3 make certain groups particularly vulnerable to exploitation. We use examples from Dubai to demonstrate gendered infrastructure development and Mexico to illustrate intersectional labor exploitation in manufacturing.
