We watched a clip from a BBC documentary in Social Sculpture about a group of college students who go to India and experience the life of a worker in a garment factory. When we're buying clothes at the mall, we never think about where it came from and the only thing we know is what we see on the "made from ___" tags. Usually, this isn't the only country the product went through in the process to make it. When we pick up a tee-shirt, we would never think that in India there would be thousands of workers on a very low wage working off "blood and sweat" in factories. Because they are underpaid, the top, most influential people in the company will gain more profit, and the workers in developing countries will continue to be poor.
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Excellent analysis Roxanne! I especially like the part when you refer to the "made from ___" tags. This is something I remember my artist collaborators thought was an important image to use in our work regarding unseen labor in globalized economies. I think you do a fine job describing how easy it is to forget all that goes into making a product when we blindly consume.
--Ms. Sheilah
November 24, 2008 at 10:23 PM