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Lynn NottageA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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Short Answer
1. One of the major issues in Sweat is NAFTA, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which led to outsourcing jobs to other countries. What is NAFTA? How did it affect people living in the United States?
Teaching Suggestion: High school and college (or even older) students may know very little or nothing about NAFTA. Group brainstorming may help in collectively piecing together information and speculation; it might be helpful to provide these or similar resources with the guiding discussion topic of what NAFTA meant to the average person in the United States. This connects to the theme of The Human Cost of Production (and Outsourcing).
By Lynn Nottage