Wednesday through Friday the counselors will be in class to work with students. We will not have class, but you have the following assignment due on Monday. When you have finished yesterday's assignment, please copy and paste the following questions to a google doc, answer each one and share with me. The link is to a New York Times article about modern day slavery.a. What happened to the children reported to be on a slave ship off the coast of Benin?
b. What has been one result of the publicity surrounding the ship?
c. How does Beth Herzfeld of Anti-Slavery International define “slave”?
d. Using the definition of slave cited in the article, how many people are enslaved today?
e. What was the trans-Atlantic slave trade? How long did it last?
f. How does the number of people enslaved today compare to the estimated number of people forced into labor by the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
g. In what types of occupations do many of the 250 million children who are providing cheap or free labor around the world work?
h. Why are “today’s peddlers of servitude” seeking out “not the strong, but the weak: women and children”?
i. The article mentions several reasons why a society might be moved to take action against “a social or political evil, an industrial danger or even the potential for natural catastrophe.” What are some of the reasons outlined in the article?
j. Why was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire a significant moment in United States labor history?
k. How did the recent stampede at a soccer match in South Africa change laws there?
l. What did the most recent earthquake in India prompt calls for?
m. According to the article, do calamities always bring about the call for change?
n. How did the official reaction to the factory fires in New York (the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory) and recently in Bangladesh differ?
o. The article cites examples of individuals making a difference. What are some of these examples?
p. What does Juan Somavia, the director general of the International Labor Organization believe is the most important factor in bringing about change in the use of forced and slave labor?
If you find the topic of modern-day slavery interesting, take a look at the CNN Freedom Project under the Extended Lesson, on the right of this blog.
A school building was fenced off with barbed wire in Espoo, Finland in 1908 (see the picture in the link). Swedes fenced off school buildings with barbed wire, in order to ban children the access to a school.
ReplyDeleteThe Swedish government was responsible for the most iron ore the Nazis received. Kiruna-Gällivare ore fields in Northern Sweden were all important to Nazi Germany.
These massive deliveries of iron ore and military facilities from Sweden to Nazi Germany lengthened World War II. Casualties of the war have been estimated at 20 million killed in Europe. How many of them died due to Sweden's material support to Nazi Germany, is not known.
http://www.thoughts.com/raimo/case-sweden
How is this comment related to slavery? Were the children enslaved?
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