Barbie's Trip Around The World: Globalization In The Toy Industry

Published in 2000, this 30-page booklet looks at child labour and the unhealthy and dangerous working conditions that are commonplace in the international toy industry. It includes descriptions of the daily routine and financial struggles of factory workers and many statistics highlighting corporate power and earnings.

The Table of Contents includes the following:

• Workers in the Toy Industry
• Made in the Third World
• Toy Factory Fires
• The Labour Behind the Mattel Label
• Chinese Toy Factories
• McDonald's Toy Makers Not McHappy
• How the Toy Industry Moved Overseas
• Travellin' Barbie
• It's Cheaper in China
• Bye Bye America, Au Revoir Canada
• Seeking Solutions
• Governments Take a Break
• Codes of Conduct
• Monitoring and Mattel
• Charter on the Safe Production of Toys
• Workers' Rights Clause
• What You Can Do
• Organizing in Canada

This publication is the second resource in VIDEA's Sweatshops series, which also includes
Sweatshops: Clothes (Click here for more information), and
Behind the Swoosh (Click here for more information).

The series focuses on the global production line and linking producers and consumers. A facilitator's guide is also available (Click here for more information on the facilitator's guide).