By Elisheva Rubin   Fall 2006

An Overview:
This map is designed to be a visual aid for a middle school social science class. The objective of this map is to help raise awareness to our alienation and consumption patterns. Hopefully, this will raise similar questions about our own society. The map demonstrates six out of countless cases of human rights violations of worker-wages in factories in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Jordan, Bangladesh, and China (the National Labor Committee), where multinational corporations contract.

In the process of making this map I imagined a seventh-grade student describing what he/she sees on the map: "A toy which is sold in the US for $9.84, is made in China, in a factory that contracts for Wal*Mart. The worker who made this toy is paid $0.4 an hour, however, the non-poverty wage in China is $1.3/hr. This means that the worker will stay poor. The pay in China is lower than in Nicaragua where the paid wage is also closer to the non-poverty wage.”

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