Journal Entries!

Sweatshop/Child Labor 1. Did reading the two assigned articles change your mind, or confirm your opinion of sweat shops? Do you think sweat shops located in another country to produce American goods are a bad thing? 2. Are you from a country whose corporations contract labor outside the country to produce goods? Or are you from a country that produces goods for the U.S. or another major world economy? 3. Do you think sweat shops rob Americans of jobs? 4. Would you pay more for products currently produced in offshore sweat shops if their production was moved to American factories with the labor done by Americans? (If you are from another major world economy, apply this same question to your country.) 5. Is child labor bad? 6. Did you have to work as a child? 7. Do you think we should follow the rule “buy local?” 8. Do you think the products of any country dominate the world market now? 9. What products can you name that come from your country, and what products are imported? (you can answer this no matter where you’re from) 10. How can we resolve disagreements about the necessity and fairness of sweatshops that may or may not employ children?