Apr. 24 – Sweatshop Simulation

Today we watched this video and discussed it.

• http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-garment-worker-in-bangladesh.html

I asked you to look at where your clothes were made yesterday.  Do any of you have concerns about where they were made?

Here's an article about what happened a year after the factory collapsed:

• Bangladesh Factory Collapse

Here's the organizer we used to look at the effects:

• Investigating Effect Organizer

Next we continued working on the sweatshops handout.

• Behind the Label

Then we went to the computer lab to try out a sweatshop simulation.  Try it out at this link:

• http://www.simsweatshop.com/

Reflect about how you felt while trying the simulation.  What parts of it stood out or surprised you?

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Some people asked for a copy of the Manufacturing Industries Map from our atlases.  Here is a scan of it:

• Manufacturing Industries Map