Flex Day Field Trip

October 12, 2008 Flex day
Garment Factory Questions

1. Name one idea you have after this visit that connects to the idea of using resources!
2. Name one idea you have after this visit that relates to the word 'population'.
3. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the top score, how would you rate the quality of the work environment you saw here, and why?
4. What does the word 'export' have to do with today's visit?
5. What do you think the level of safety is here? What makes you think this?
6. How old do you think the workers here are, on average?
7. What is one question you still have about the garment industry here in Bangladesh?
8. What types of issues does this factory cause or help solve in terms of resources here in Bangladesh?
9. What might you say about economic issues based on today's visit?

Do you think the products being manufactured here help or hurt
Bangladesh?


Answer one of the above questions and add two points of observation or reflection from the day abouts the two places we visited (Sterling Styles factory and Up2Date apparel office). Also you can compose a question that you may have from our flex day adventures. You should post these three items on your blog page.
1) answer a question 2) make two observations or reflections (or write your own questions that you may have) Three things in total!

Question #6 How old do you think the workers here are, on average?

I think the workers are around 30 years old because there job is to make clothes by sewing them together. And in order to do that they need to have good visions with their eyes. So if there really old they would have trouble seeing things and may make a mistake with the process. I don't think they would be that young for example 20. Because if there 20 and have enough knowledge to do that kind of job, they would probably be in university.

I think the age 30 would be perfect for those kind of jobs. From my observations, i think the workers were very educational because they knew a lot about sewing and working with those complex sewing machines. Plus the age 30 may be the best age to know a lot about things because at young age, there still learning, and at old age, they may have forgotten things or will forget things easily.

My question is, have all those workers have gone to university? and if they have, did they go to university's that are outside of Bangladesh or inside of Bangladesh?