Sweatshop Information, Reflection and Action Packet

SWEATSHOP CURRICULA

Challenging Sweatshops:
A Guide for the Religious Community
A guide designed for people of faith and people who pursue social justice with secular groups to educate and encourage action that will challenge the existence of sweatshops.

Audience: Grades 8-12 and adults
National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
1020 West Bryn Mawr, 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60660-4627
Phone: (773) 728-8400
E-mail: nicwj@igc.org
Web: www.igc.org/nicwj
Cost: $10.00

Child Labor is Not Cheap
Three unit curriculum with complete lesson plans. Lesson I: the hard realities of child labor ; Lesson II: case studies; Lesson III: suggestions for solutions. Rich resources accompany each lesson.

Audience: Grades 8-12 & adults
Resource Center of the Americas
317 Seventeenth Avenue SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414-2077
Phone: (612) 627-9445
Fax: (612) 627-9450
E-mail:kdunne@americas.org
Web:www.americas.org
Cost:$14.95 + $3.00 S/H

Global Sweatshop Curriculum
Contains factual basis for handling the topic of sweatshops with students, including the highly complex subject of global economics and key terms. All the resources needed for teaching a unit on sweatshops, as well as a copy of Campaign for Labor Rights newsletter.

Audience: Grades 4-12, adaptable for adults
The Campaign for Labor Rights
1247 E Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: (541) 344-5410
E-mail:clr@igc.apc.org
Web:www.compugraph.com/clr
Cost:$12.50 + $2.50 S/H

Stop Sweatshops
Curriculum comprised of multiple activities and information resources. Uses a role play to help students understand the complexity of the sweatshop issue..

Audience: Grades 5-12
UNITE
1710 Broadway
New York, New York 10019
Phone: (212) 265-7000 ext. 821
Fax: (212) 765-9541
E-mail:stopsweatshops@uniteunion.org
Web:www.uniteunion.org

Curriculum is available online.

Teaching Resources on Sweatshops
Uses a study of sweatshops as a springboard to the study of many social and ethical problems of our time. Three study guides review Catholic Social Teaching in the 20th century. Includes a variety of instructional and reference materials as well as a prayer service. Describes sweatshop conditions and shows students how their voices can a difference.

Audience: Elementary & secondary students
Archdiocese of Newark
171 Clifton Avenue
Post Office Box 9500
Newark, New Jersey 07104-9500
Phone: (973) 497-4341
Fax: (973) 497-4317
Cost:$10.00 + $4.00 S/H

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1216 NE 65th Street Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: 206.223.1138 Fax: 206.621-7046 E-mail: ipjc@ipjc.org