Social 10: Related Issue 4 - Global Connections

Vocabulary

Basic Needs - People’s basic physical needs include food, clothing, shelter, and water, but they also have social needs, such as family and friends, and emotional needs, such as a sense of belonging and being loved

Inalienable - Referring to rights that cannot be taken away or transferred

Human Trafficking - A crime that occurs when people seeking a better life in a new country are preyed on by criminal organizations that help them immigrate illegally, then force them to work in substandard conditions or in criminal activities

Basic Needs

Food, shelter, clothing, air, water

Absolute minimum resources necessary for long-term physical well-being, usually in terms of consumption goods

Inalienable Rights

Rights that cannot be taken away or transferred

Not all societies agree on what inalienable rights should be

Ex: individual independence & freedom, individual rights that might be spelled out in the Canadian Charter or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human Rights

Human Trafficking

The action pr practice of illegally transporting someone from one country or are to another, typically for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation

Vocabulary

Ingenuity Gap - The gap between people’s need for new and innovative solutions to problem’s and their ability to supply those solutions

Gender Gap - The social, economic, and political differences that separates men and women

Labor Standards - Measures that protect workers

Ingenuity Gap

The gap between people’s need for new and innovative solutions to problems and their ability to supply those solutions

Science and entrepreneurship cannot solve all problems in a society

When problems remain unsolved this creates a gab that can be a challenge

The Gender Gap

The gap in economic, social, and political differences that separate men and women

Global progress towards gender inequality has been slow and inconsistent

Labor Laws

Government set standards for how workers should be treated in a country/industry as a well as how the environment should be protected

Unions rose up after the Industrial Revolution

Globalization/transnationals often target unions as contributing to “rising manufacturing costs” and promoting “special interests or their members”

Union participation is on the decline around the globe over the last number of decades - impacted from outsourcing to countries that are non-unionized

International Labor Organization (ILO) identified four “fundamental principles and rights at work,” which every country is expected to respect and promote. These principles and rights include:

1. Freedom from forced labor

2. Freedom from discrimination in the workplace

3. A ban on child labor

4. The right to organize and bargain collectively