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Geography at key stage 3    (Year 9)

Unit 18: The global fashion industry

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Resources

Resources include:

  • fashion advertisements (magazine or video)
  • writing frames for a variety of genres
  • world maps
  • atlases
  • dictionaries
  • development statistics sourced from textbooks or CD-ROMs
  • TNC information from textbooks, magazine/newspaper articles or the internet
  • global economic data and information
  • 'heads and tails' cards for the word wall/glossary activities
  • textbooks, CD-ROMs and word-processing packages
  • card sorting activity role cards for people in the production chain - consumer, retailer, brand owner, manufacturer and factory worker
  • leaflets for the fair trading activity and codes of conduct for workers
  • the development compass rose (DCR), available from Development Education Centre (DEC), Birmingham
  • Development Education Association (DEA) publications
  • websites, eg
    • www.tidec.org - (DEC, Birmingham) - globalisation project and links to associated websites; also includes lesson plans for teaching about globalisation
    • www.cafod.org.uk - article about Asian garment industry and globalisation
    • www.globalexchange.org - articles about fair trade and current news stories about global trade issues
    • www.cleanclothes.org - includes lengthy reports on many 'labels'
    • www.corpwatch.org - a US website with information about several companies
    • www.oneworld.org - up-to-date news from around the world
  • organisations:
    • Labour behind the label, c/o Norfolk Education and Action for Development (NEAD), 38 Exchange Street, Norwich
  • journal/magazine articles:
    • 'Just do it'. Down to Earth, Vol 5, No 5 (November 1996)
    • 'Globalisation - an alternative view'. New Internationalist (November 1997)
    • New Internationalist (July 1997)
    • New Internationalist (October 1997)
  • photopacks, eg
    • The clothes line, Oxfam
    • Can you be different? (DEC, Birmingham)
  • trading games, eg
    • The trading game, Christian Aid
    • Trading trainers game, Christian Aid

Sections in this unit

This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
1. What is meant by the global fashion industry?
2. How does the fashion industry connect people around the globe?
3. How does world trade work? How does this affect the countries involved? How have trade patterns changed?
4. What do we mean by 'globalisation'?
5. How does globalisation affect the fashion industry?
6. How does globalisation affect people at a local level? What happens if the chain is broken?
7. Who are the winners and losers in the globalisation process? Is this fair?
8. What might the future be like?