Today in Human Geo, our class was shortened by
about ten minutes due to an assembly earlier that day. During our time in
class, we finished our discussion on globalization, and researched further
about the minimum wages Nike factory workers are paid in Indonesia. We
found that the minimum wage in Indonesia is about $4.00 a day. Even though that
is extremely cheap, Nike factory owners still think it's too high. Through
military threats, Nike was able to coerce these workers to sign a document
that said they agreed to work for less than minimum wage. Unfortunately these
results show that not much change has been made for factory workers since Jim
Keady’s video was published.
Today we also continued working in groups to finish
a power point on the pros and cons of globalization. We will present these
power points to the class, and expect a test on what we have learned so far this
year. (including a letter to Garcia, globalization, etc.)
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