Behind the Swoosh:
Sweatshops and Social Justice
Description
This two-hour interactive multi-media presentation,
"Behind the Swoosh: Sweatshops and Social Justice",
includes slide shows, role-playing, powerful video
footage, and a Question-Answer period. The presentation
details the month EFJ Directors, Leslie Kretzu and
Jim Keady spent in an Indonesian factory workers'
slum living on $1.25 a day, a typical wage paid
to Nike's subcontracted workers. Along with personal
accounts of lived solidarity, the presentation includes
the latest information on Nike's labor and environmental
practices that EFJ-sponsored teams researched in
Indonesia from 2000 to the present. With "Behind
the Swoosh", Kretzu and Keady attempt to de-commodify
"labor" and as such, challenge their audience
to deal in human terms with the women, men and sometimes
children, who are the foundation of global manufacturing.
This presentation can be modified according to the
knowledge and experience of audience members and
is appropriate for anyone seeking to understand
the sweatshop issue. Using the perspective of factory
workers as a starting point, it includes solid analysis
and reflection, as well as the outlining of proactive
steps towards making the economic, social and environmental
conditions for workers more fair and just. Past
audiences have included high school students, undergraduate
and graduate college students (particularly MBA,
Economics, Finance, Theology, International Affairs,
Sociology, Political Science, Women’s Studies,
and related disciplines), faculty members, religious
groups, and community groups as well as local and
statewide union organizations.
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