CSU Northridge Conditions Under Which an Item Is Produced Discussion

For this assignment, you must first post a thoughtful response to the prompt posted below. Then, you must also respond to the post of one of your classmates. Each response should be at least one paragraph in length (five clearly written, thoughtful sentences).

Please watch the documentary Santa’s Workshop which looks at the conditions under which toys are produced for consumption in the European market (it is very difficult to find videos of US American companies, but many of the companies discussed in the documentary have US American branches as well) and the clip about the conditions in factories used to produce clothes sold in stores like H&M. How does looking at the conditions under which an item is produced change our understanding of what an item costs? What are the hidden costs being paid by others to produce the goods we use on a daily basis? What can we do as consumers?

(Links to an external site.)H&M Factories’ Deadly Conditions Exposed (Links to an external site.)Santa’s Workshop – Inside China’s Slave Labour Toy Factories (Links to an external site.)