Exercise for Workshop Participants

• Take 5 minutes to reflect individually and think about what you are wearing today.

• Write down all the different types of people who might have contributed to making the clothes and shoes we are wearing, where the components might have come from and what the working and living conditions for these people might be.

• Then take 5 minutes to discuss this with the person next to you how this relates to the characteristics of the social system we discussed.

• What abuses of power might be present? How can are purchasing decisions be unintentionally contributing to abuses of power?