Globalisation

You’re out shopping for new jeans. When you’re choosing the right ones, what will you think about?
The price? The fit? The name on the label?

I went shopping with my mum. We saw jeans for £8. ‘Ooooooh!’ said mum. ‘£8! That is good value. How do they make them so cheap?’

How do they make them so cheap?
Will you think about that?

Is a life spent chained to a sewing machine good value? A fair exchange for you and thousands of others looking good - cheaply?
Bet you’d rather be a fashion victim
Than a victim of fashion?

And what will you say, dressed up for a Saturday night out, to the kids who won’t ever go to school, because they’re stitching your sequins on?

What will you say, after football in the park, to the boys who never get chance to play because they’re making your trainers?

Will you say ‘There’s nothing I can do’?
Or will you change,
so that one day
they can see change too?

Read the stories on these products. Have you ever thought about how you are connected to the people who make the things you buy?

Choose one of the stories. What do you want to say to this person? Write your response using the words on the fridge.