Teaching Resources
Church World Service provides VHS videos whose topics range from globalization to hunger and poverty issues to refugees. Organizations can borrow these videos for the price of return postage. Titles that concern sweatshop and fair labor issues include Bringing It All Back Home, which links U.S. factory closings to the lives of women workers in developing nations, and The Global Assembly Line, which exposes the working conditions of women workers worldwide. Many titles are also appropriate for school aged children.
UNITE! maintains a website for children. Resources include a section that defines child labor, a reading list with books listed for children as young as three, and contact information for companies such as Disney, Nike and Wal-Mart. In addition, children can read the story of B.D. and Ateth, and see how a child sweatshop worker lives.
The United Nation's International Labor Organization also maintains a children's page. Resources are available for elementary, secondary and college aged students. Sections for elementary school children include "A Day In The Life of a Child Worker", "Child Worker Wages", "What is Made With Child Labor" and "What We Can Do". High school and college aged students also learn about child labor by taking "Child Labor 101". Very comprehensive page.
A professor at Occidental College has designed a seminar on sweatshops and globalization. Go here to view his syllabus and extensive reccommended reading list.