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12 month program - B certificate in Pedagogy
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24 Months – Fighting with the Poor
12 months program, B certificate in Pedagogy 2023
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1. Contemporary World
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Humana People to People Struggling shoulder to shoulder with the Poor
Conditions of the Poor
Causes of poverty
Overcoming poverty in Mozambique
The Future of the Poor
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The task is to learn about how big multinational companies treat the poorest workers not as human beings but as their slaves.
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The foundation for Wal-Mart was laid in 1950 by Sam Walton. The first shop was opened in Arkansas in United States under the name of “Walton’s 5&10”. The location of the first shop has been transformed into the headquarters of Wal-Mart who has become the biggest retailer company in the world. Sam Walton understood from the start that providing his customers with cheap products instead of high mark-ups on each sales item would make the company more competitive. The company would secure profits by selling the same cheap goods in big quantities in all its shops. Sam Walton consciously tried to keep pay-rolls down. He preferred to hire as few people as possible and only pay them what he had to. Though wages in Wal-Mart’s shops in United States were kept low and worker’s attempts to organize in trade unions were crushed they have succeeded in promoting themselves as a responsible employer in United States. The company provides health care insurance for the employees and it gives them the right to put a certain percentage of their wage aside to buy subsidized Wal-Mart stocks. For Wal-Mart employees who stay in the company until their retirement this can amount to quite some money. But as the job is very low paid many employees have not managed to make this investment. The company today has 1.4 million employees in United States and 700,000 employees in other countries. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Because of the company’s size it can bargain the prices of the goods from its suppliers around the world. Most of Wal-Mart suppliers come from countries where wages are kept down to a level where workers barely survive and work under horrible work conditions sometimes even slave like. </span></p> <span style="color:black">Wal-Mart claims to make inspections to secure that the products sold in Wal-Mart are produced in a human and environmentally responsible way but examples of the opposite has been proven again and again. The prize of the explosive consumerism is paid by the poor in third world countries around the world.</span>
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This task is scheduled for 3 hours.<br /> <ol> <li>Read the text.</li> <li>Find five interesting facts in the article and write them down.</li> <li>Explain the facts to a fellow student or another interested person and discuss what this can teach us about the behavior of multinational companies and the consequences for workers.</li> <li>Send your five facts and conclusion on the discussion to your tutor.</li> </ol> Files:<br /> F1. Jean-Christophe Servant: “Slaves of the stacked shelves”, Le Monde Diplomatique.
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