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IF PRODUCTS
     COULD SPEAK
TOWARDS A MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

           JEN VAN DER MEER

               NYU ITP

            April 13, 2009
RECALLED 4_9_2009
RECALLED 4_7_2009
RECALLED 4_8_2009
TODAY’S FOCUS: 

Labor + Community Impacts – 
beyond environmental impacts to surrounding
ecosystem and human health.

Planning for final presentations. 

LCA practice.
Labor Conditions Reveal Product Backstory in
Human Terms
Images: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn at a labor strike in1913
At the Paterson Silk Mills, NJ. First US labor strike: children, 1835. First law
outlawing children at factory work: 1836. Massachusetts. Not the last.
Image: London Matchgirls Strike 1888. 14 hour days and phosphorous.
Homestead/Pinkerton Strike 1892
1902: Shirtwaist Strike
1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Silkwood – Norma Rae
Image: National Labor Committee
Wendy Diaz
Testimony during Press Conference with 
Congressman George Miller
May 29, 1996

My name is Wendy Diaz. I am from Honduras. I'm 15 years old. I was born January 24, 1981. I
started working at Global Fashion when I was 13 years old.

Last year, up to December, I worked on Kathie Lee pants. At Global Fashion there are about 100
minors like me--13, 14, 15 years old--some even 12. On the Kathie Lee pants we were forced to
work, almost every day, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. On Saturday we worked to 5 p.m. Sometimes they
kept us all night long working, until 6:30 a.m. This happened a lot with the Kathie Lee pants. The
compañeras of the packing department almost always work these hours. Working all these hours I
made at most 240 lempiras a week, which I am told is about $21.86 U.S. My base wage is 3.34
lempiras--which is 31 U.S. cents. No one can survive on these wages.

The treatment at Global Fashion is very bad. The supervisors insult us and yell at us to work faster.
Sometimes they throw the garment in your face, or grab and shove you. They make you work very
fast, and if you make the production quota one day then they just increase it the next day.

The plant is hot, like an oven. They keep the bathroom locked, and you need permission and can
only use it twice a day. We are not allowed to talk at work; if they see us talking, they punish us.

Even the pregnant women they abuse. They send them to the pressing department where they
have to work on their feet 12 or 13 hours a day in tremendous heat ironing. This is a tactic the
company uses to force them to quit, since working like that, their feet swell up and when they can't
stand it any more they have to leave. This way the company doesn't have to pay maternity
benefits.
Image: National Labor Committee
Images: National Labor Committee
Images: Africa People’s Solidarity Committee
Image: Environmental Health Perspectives
Image: The Mail: Foxconn factory. 
What was made here?
What is made here?
Community Conditions – Impact Felt Beyond the
Laborer

Endangered Communities
Disadvantaged Women
Violated Human Rights
Toll on Indigenous Peoples
Image: EarthWorks Action. Protest against the use of cyanide at a potential
goldmine site in Argentina
Fair Trade: advocates the payment of a “fair
price” and also demands social and
environmental standards when purchasing from
developing countries. 

Focused on handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar,
tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit,
chocolate and flowers.
What’s the argument against Fair Trade?

Where do you stand?
Break.
LCA time. 

Planning for next 2 weeks:
Time Slots.

Requirements:
•  30 Minutes Max.
•   “Business” or “Non Profit” or “Art” case. 
•  LCA: Functional unit defined. 
•  Inventory analysis. Impacts assessment as the result of scoping
   LCA. Black boxes identified – either because info was
   unavailable, or it was too complex to own within your system
   boundary. 
•  Labor + human conditions impacts (beyond environmental
   health)

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If Products Could Speak April 13

  • 1. IF PRODUCTS COULD SPEAK TOWARDS A MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE DESIGN JEN VAN DER MEER NYU ITP April 13, 2009
  • 5. TODAY’S FOCUS: Labor + Community Impacts – beyond environmental impacts to surrounding ecosystem and human health. Planning for final presentations. LCA practice.
  • 6. Labor Conditions Reveal Product Backstory in Human Terms
  • 7. Images: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn at a labor strike in1913 At the Paterson Silk Mills, NJ. First US labor strike: children, 1835. First law outlawing children at factory work: 1836. Massachusetts. Not the last.
  • 8. Image: London Matchgirls Strike 1888. 14 hour days and phosphorous.
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  • 16. Wendy Diaz Testimony during Press Conference with Congressman George Miller May 29, 1996 My name is Wendy Diaz. I am from Honduras. I'm 15 years old. I was born January 24, 1981. I started working at Global Fashion when I was 13 years old. Last year, up to December, I worked on Kathie Lee pants. At Global Fashion there are about 100 minors like me--13, 14, 15 years old--some even 12. On the Kathie Lee pants we were forced to work, almost every day, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. On Saturday we worked to 5 p.m. Sometimes they kept us all night long working, until 6:30 a.m. This happened a lot with the Kathie Lee pants. The compañeras of the packing department almost always work these hours. Working all these hours I made at most 240 lempiras a week, which I am told is about $21.86 U.S. My base wage is 3.34 lempiras--which is 31 U.S. cents. No one can survive on these wages. The treatment at Global Fashion is very bad. The supervisors insult us and yell at us to work faster. Sometimes they throw the garment in your face, or grab and shove you. They make you work very fast, and if you make the production quota one day then they just increase it the next day. The plant is hot, like an oven. They keep the bathroom locked, and you need permission and can only use it twice a day. We are not allowed to talk at work; if they see us talking, they punish us. Even the pregnant women they abuse. They send them to the pressing department where they have to work on their feet 12 or 13 hours a day in tremendous heat ironing. This is a tactic the company uses to force them to quit, since working like that, their feet swell up and when they can't stand it any more they have to leave. This way the company doesn't have to pay maternity benefits.
  • 19. Images: Africa People’s Solidarity Committee
  • 21. Image: The Mail: Foxconn factory. What was made here?
  • 22. What is made here?
  • 23. Community Conditions – Impact Felt Beyond the Laborer Endangered Communities Disadvantaged Women Violated Human Rights Toll on Indigenous Peoples
  • 24. Image: EarthWorks Action. Protest against the use of cyanide at a potential goldmine site in Argentina
  • 25. Fair Trade: advocates the payment of a “fair price” and also demands social and environmental standards when purchasing from developing countries. Focused on handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, chocolate and flowers.
  • 26. What’s the argument against Fair Trade? Where do you stand?
  • 28. LCA time. Planning for next 2 weeks: Time Slots. Requirements: •  30 Minutes Max. •  “Business” or “Non Profit” or “Art” case. •  LCA: Functional unit defined. •  Inventory analysis. Impacts assessment as the result of scoping LCA. Black boxes identified – either because info was unavailable, or it was too complex to own within your system boundary. •  Labor + human conditions impacts (beyond environmental health)