Globalization Activities

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Globalization Activities
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Soccer Ball

• Look at the soccer ball
• Describe it. What do you think about it?

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Whats missing?

• We often forget about the deeper social reality
  associated with the ball a reality that
  advertising consumption oriented rhythms of
  U.S. daily life discourage students from
  considering.
• Read Brechts poem answer the questions

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Brechts influence

• Keeping in mind Brechts poem, I want you to
  re-see the ball consider
• writing from the POV of the ball
• ask it questions
• look at it deeply what did you miss the first
  time?
• When you consider the human lives behind the ball
  as the objective, writing comes alive. We need to
  make the invisible visible to look behind the
  masks of everyday consumer goods.

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Work Poem

• You are going to write a work poem that captures
  some aspect of the human lives connected to the
  products we use every day. You can draw on any
  situation, product, individual, or relationship
  from history. Think about the importance of
  making visible the invisible, of looking behind
  the masks presented by everyday consumer goods.

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Just Do What? Facts About Nike

• of workers making Nike products worldwide on a
  given day 500,000
• of people employed at the PT Nikomas Gemilang
  factory in Indonesia which makes Nike runners
  23,000
• Avg. daily wage for Indonesian workers making
  Nike products 1.10
• Avg. daily wage for Chinese workers making Nike
  products 2
• Avg. daily wage for Vietnamese workers making
  Nike products 1.60

• Amount Nike CEO Phil Knights stock in company is
  reportedly worth 4.5 billion
• Nikes 1999 revenues 9 billion
• Name of Oregon university student who designed
  the swoosh Carolyn Davidson
• Amount she charged for the design 35
• of Downsview, Ontaria workers who lost their
  jobs in 1994 when Nike shifted production of
  athletic clothing to cheaper undisclosed
  locations more than 100

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Nike continued

• Estimated cost of doubling the 10 cent-an-hr.
  wages of Nikes 80,000 Indonesian factory
  workers 22 million a year
• Percentage of Nikes annual advertising budget
  this would represent 2.8
• Annual amount Nike paid Michael Jordan for
  promoting Nike products 20 million

• What Nike paid to sponsor the Brazilian soccer
  team 200 million
• Retail cost of one pair of Nikes Air Tuned
  Sirocco runners 120.
• Approximate cost of making one pair of Nike
  running shoes 5
• Nike has paid Tiger Woods millions of dollars in
  endorsement fees

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Nikes Code of Conduct

• NIKE Inc. was founded with the determination that
  we would build our business with all of our
  partners trust, teamwork, honesty mutual
  respect.
• At the core of Nike corporate ethics is the
  belief that we are a company comprised of many
  different kinds of people, appreciating
  individual diversity, dedicated to equal
  opportunities for each individual.

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Code continued

• Nike designs, manufactures, markets products
  for sports fitness consumers. Nike seeks
  partners that share our commitment to the
  promotion of best practices continuous
  improvement in
• Occupational safety health concerns,
  compensation, work hours, benefit standards
• Minimizing our impact on the environment
• Management practices that recognize the dignity
  of the individual, the rights of collective
  bargaining, the right to a workplace free of
  harassment, abuse, or corporal punishment
• The principle that decisions on hiring, salary,
  benefits, advancement, termination, or retirement
  are based solely on the ability of an individual
  to do the job no discrimination for any reason

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Masks

• Michael Jordan soars through the air,
• On shoes of unpaid labor.
• A boy kicks a soccer ball,
• The bloody hands are forgotten.
• An excited girl combs the hair of her Barbie,
• An over-worked girl makes it.
• A child receives a teddy bear,
• Made in China has no meaning.
• The words hand made are printed,
• Whose hands were used to make them?
• A 6 year old in America starts his first day of
  school
• A 6 year old in Pakistan starts his first day of
  work
• They want us to see the ball,
• Not to see the millions of ball stitchers.
• The world is full of many masks.
• The hard part is seeing beneath them.

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NIKE Just Do It!

• N Number one in moneymaking
• - Number one in sweatshop, overworked,
  under
• paid labor
• I Increasing prices of products
• - Increasing the number of factories
• K Killing new styles promoted on TV
• - Killing Pakistani kids lives producing
  these products.
• E Eager to be paid millions of dollars
• - Eager to be paid to survive winters
  summers

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The Stitching Shed

• Day by day
• Sit in the stitching shed
• Stitch by stitch
• Hope I could do faster,
• Do faster to earn money,
• Do faster so my brother
• Wont cry because of hunger,
• Do faster so my family can survive.
• Stitch by stitch.
• One by one.
• I want to cry out,
• But cant do that.

• Family still there.
• I want to give up.
• But cant do that.
• My family needs food!!
• Cant do it faster.
• My hands hurt.
• I hear the voices through the winds.
• They tell me to let go of the pain.
• Oh, God! I am too young to give up.
• The hope eases my pain.
• Hope tomorrow will be better.

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Dear Barbie

• Dear Barbie,
• How are you? What will you do today?
• Will you work all day for pennies an hour?
• Or will you play in your dream house
• Made from the sore hands of little girls?
• Barbie, will you make up your perfect,
• Pretty face that has become more
• Important than the sad faces
• That made you who you are?
• Are you too good, Barbie?
• So good that the very hands that put
• You together will never have
• You for their own?
• Do you even care?
• Dear, dear Barbie.

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Create your own

• Write a work poem
• Relates to globalization, sweat shops, labor
  issues, etc.