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The Factory Girl From the damp, dirty hallway, From the long lines of the cafeteria, From the rumble of the machines and the unbearable factory noise, The daylight drifts by, the starlight drifts by. Forever crying on the production line, The factory girls endure exhaustion and hardship.

Lesson Plans for VOW's newest book, Invisible Hands, address global manufacturing. By registering with your email address, you are emailed all of the pdfs.

We've written a lot about how income has changed (or not) for the rich, middle class and poor in the U.S. We've written much less about what the rich, middle class and poor actually do for work. To remedy that, we made this graph. It shows the 10 most popular jobs in each income bracket.

Below you will find downloadable pdf files for some key Culture of Thinking resources. The research and theoretical basis for the Cultures of Thinking work can be found in my book, Intellectual Character.

Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean, a small-town truck driver, to invent the shipping container. Containerization was born, and it transformed the modern global economy.

How did the clothes you're wearing get to you? Guardian journalists trace the lifecycle of the shirt on your back via the teeming workshops of Dhaka, where labour is cheap, factories are cheaper and just going to work can be fatal

Links to articles and information: A year since Rana Plaza collapsed

Great definition of capital, with a few non-examples, which are very useful.