Globalization for Beginners
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Summary of Curriculum: This workshop focuses on the IMF, World Bank, structural adjustment, and neoliberalism. It identifies the governing institutions of the global economy, their corporate agenda, and how they disrupt third world societies, driving migration. Particularly useful charts include:
-Who makes the rules?
-How the global South finances the world economy
-Corporations: getting bigger than nations
-Globalization and racism
-Women and structural adjustment
The best activities are:
Opening – check each others’ clothing labels
Video: Uprooted or Deadly Embrace (about structural adjustment and garment sweatshops in Nicaragua)
The workshop kit includes charts, and handout packet, and theoretically a trainer’s guide. Only the charts are linked above. For a copy in pdf format contact one of the UFE staffers above or Mike Prokosch, Michael_Prokosch@uml.edu or 978-934-3239.
Organization Name: United for a Fair Economy
Contact Person: Jeannette Huezo or Steve Schnapp
Date: 11/6/06
Language: English
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Record was added on 11-06-2006
Record was updated on 11-06-2006
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