85 Language skills Extras Explore 6 Production and industry Info point: Globalisation and labour conditions Read the situations below. Add the letters A–F to the scale, ranking the situations from ‘least acceptable’ to ‘most acceptable’. 24 a A 12-year-old girl takes out her 85-year-old neighbour’s rubbish, sometimes helps in the garden and mows the lawn once a week in the summer. She receives €15 per week pocket money if all chores are completed. A 15-year-old girl helps serve customers and cleans rooms at her family’s hotel after school on weekends and during holidays for no pay. A 19-year-old male agrees to leave his home to live and work on a coffee plantation after a trader promises him $150 a month plus health support for his sick father. Once he arrives at the plantation, he works but receives no pay and is beaten if he does not continue to work. A 17-year-old male who hopes to be a metallurgist some day is an intern at an Austrian steel plant for six weeks in the summer and is fully paid. A 14-year-old boy works in a corn field for 9 hours a day, six days a week during July and is paid €4 per hour (with no overtime pay). A seven-year-old Indian girl hand-ties knots for carpets at a loom for 11 hours each day, all year round. She sleeps on the floor in the workshop with her mother and four siblings and is fed three small meals a day. She doesn’t receive any pay because she is a bonded labourer working to pay off her family’s debts. A B C F E D In pairs, talk about your scales. Give reasons for your choices. Match the terms with the correct definitions. 1 border 4 stocks/shares 7 export 10 home sourcing 2 outsourcing 5 natural resources 8 child labour 11 developing country 3 corporation 6 import 9 sweatshop 12 McDonaldisation A the practice or business of selling goods to another country G a product from another country which is bought with money from your country B the practice of employing people to work from their homes rather than in a company’s office or factory, usually to cut costs H a factory where people work very hard in bad conditions and earn very little money C a fairly poor country without much industrial development I work done by people from outside your company D a large company or business organisation J the employment of children, who are legally too young to work E parts of the ownership of a company that people buy as an investment K important substances such as wood and oil that exist in a country’s land and sea F similar to how McDonald’s operates, companies standardise their products and services around the world L the official line separating two countries or regions b 25 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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