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Sweatshop Series: A Facilitator's Guide

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  • Susan Gage, Richard Morrow & Stacey Toews
This 44-page guide accompanies the three Sweatshop Series booklets

Sweatshops: Clothes (Click here for more information),
Behind the Swoosh (Click here for more information), and
Barbie's Trip Around The World (Click here for more information).

Most of the 15 activities detailed in the guide - simulations, discussions, and community research projects - can be used by large or small groups and may be reproduced for educational purposes. They are intended to help participants:
  • learn information about global manufacture and human rights
  • research a topic using the Internet and action research
  • present their findings creatively and logically
  • think critically about the media and the global marketplace
  • use information to analyse, forecast, and develop solutions
These activities can be used to focus on a single booklet (clothes, shoes, or toys), or all three. The guide also includes a glossary of terms commonly used in the Sweatshop booklets.The table of contents includes the following:
  • Overview
    • Who is this guide for?
    • How are the activities structured?
    • How do the activities fit together?
  • Part 1 - Why Should I Care?
    • Activity 1: Where was my...made?
    • Activity 2: Labels that tell
    • Activity 3: First World/Third World - What's your job like?
    • Activity 4: Fair trade poetry
    • Activity 5: Life on the sweatline
  • Part 2 - How Can I Learn More?
    • Activity 6: Researching a company
    • Activity 7: Creating a code of conduct
    • Activity 8: Ads - Taking a second look
    • Activity 9: Worldwide Wonderkid Conference
    • Activity 10: What's a living wage?
    • Activity 11: Let's make a deal
    • Activity 12: Future-casting
  • Part 3 - How Can I Change Things?
    • Activity 13: So you want fair trade?
    • Activity 14: The sweatshop fashion show
    • Activity 15: Developing an action plan
  • Glossary
  • Learning Outcomes and this Guide
Click here to view the first 7 pages of this guide in PDF format.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 10/02/2005 - 09:34 Permalink

I am trying to facilitate a lecture and educate my class on sweatshop labour. This is the fourth site I have encountered that wants me to pay for the abilitiy to educate. I am very disappointed that you do not make such important material available for free as a .pdf