{"id":25031,"date":"2025-06-23T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=25031"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:29:38","slug":"handbook-example-employee-visualisation-appendage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/followthethings.com\/?p=25031","title":{"rendered":"Handbook: example page"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Textiles<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Made in the Third World
Managed in the First World<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Type<\/strong>:
Prank & movie clip.
Date<\/strong>:
August 2001
Creators<\/strong>:
The Yes Men
Location:<\/strong>
University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Watch in:<\/strong>
The Yes Men movie (2003)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INGREDIENTS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

INTENTIONS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Reach new audiences
Show capitalist evils<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TACTICS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Make a website
Choose an audience
Create a character
Bring managers into view
Make the familiar strange
Embody exploitation
Juxtapose extremes
Lie to tell the truth
Include the digital
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RESPONSES<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

My Hero!
I laughed my ass off<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMPACTS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Can’t tell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image credit<\/summary>\n

Assorted Fashion Industry Textiles<\/em> \u2013 Assortment of beige tone colored pants (https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/free-photo\/assortment-beige-tone-colored-pants_66105704.htm#fromView=search&page=2&position=46&uuid=4f93b6cd-f230-48f0-bce8-48ec11bbaecd) by freepic (freepic) Modified August 2024


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Employee Visualisation Appendage<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
IN BRIEF<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yes Men set up a fake WTO website and offer Hank Hardy Unruh to speak at conferences on its behalf. A textile conferece in Finland take up the offer, and its audience watch him reveal a gold lame telematic suit with an inflatable phallus which allows managers to sense and manage the energies of remote sweatshop workers. It\u2019s an offensive and outrageous stunt. Will its audiences understand or remember the critique that it brings to life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to read this page<\/summary>\n

We are slowly piecing together a ‘followthethings.com handbook for trade justice activism’ and are publishing the pages here as we write them. This is an ‘example’ page. The wide column paraphrases and condenses this example’s followthethings.com page, section by section. The narrow column contains some details about the commodity, some key facts about the activism that took place around it, and a list of its ‘ingredients’: its intentions, tactics, responses and impacts. These have been identified during the writing of this example page and, as more handbook pages are added, you will be able to click each one to read about it, and there will be links to other examples where we have found that ingredient, and a list of linked ingredients. This hypertext format, we believe, will help readers to understand how trade justice activism can work, and what it can do. <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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