Slavery Footprint

oAn important part of this course is learning how we are increasingly connected to people from all around the world. We always have been but the globalization of the world economy continues to increase our connections to people in most countries of the world. If you take some time to explore the tags on all your clothes, you will quickly learn that people in many parts of the world, made the clothes you wear. What does it mean that we wear clothes made by people in China? Guatemala? Pakistan? Honduras? Mexico? I hope this activity will help you think about some of these connections and what they mean to you.

Take some time and complete the   (Made in a Free World, 2011). After completing the survey, please post how many slaves are working for you based on this survey. Write a paragraph and explain how this relates to the concept of globalization, by defining the term globalization, discussing inequities that might exist and detailing how environmental inequality are related. 


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