Explain where your commodity is grown, where it is packed and shipped, who the middlemen are, and how it is sold to consumers.
As we discovered in our lesson on sugar, producing commodities can involve complex transnational relationships. Many times, those relationships produce and reproduce massive inequalities–between plantation owners and slaves, manufacturers and workers, producers and consumers. Your job is to take the commodity you have been assigned and create a map of the domestic and international relationships […]