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All together now: Piecework on an assembly line, Sudwind Agentur

In All Together Now by Südwind Agentur, Austria, different steps on an assembly line are playfully illustrated as students ‘manufacture' a shirt through folding, cutting, etc. Group members, one after another, carry out the task they are assigned to produce as many high-quality shirts as possible in the time available, in competition with other groups. The ‘supervisor' is responsible for quality control as well as maintaining pressure on the workers to complete the orders in time.

This activity has been adapted by Fashioning an Ethical Industry and a hand drawn instruction sheet developed. Please click here to download a PDF of the instruction sheet.

This teaching activity has been taken from Parker, L. and Dickson, M.A. (2009) Sustainable Fashion: A Handbook for Educators, Bristol: Labour Behind the Label.  Download the whole publication here

1. Level

Pre-16, FE

2. Pre-requisite knowledge required by educators

A. No background knowledge required

3. Pre-requisite knowledge required by students

A. No background knowledge required

4. Number of students

Minimum of 6 students

5. Length of time required

15 minutes

6. Type of activity

Group work, Interactive activities

7. Discipline

Cross-curricular, Interactive

8. Topics covered

Working conditions

 

 





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