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Tag: Exploitation

Home Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centres

24/02/2023 - Leave a Comment

The Home Office has paid asylum seekers £1 an hour to carry out more than a million hours of work in the past five years, openDemocracy can reveal. The government …

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EU faces winter recession as war pummels the economy

12/11/2022 - Leave a Comment

The European Commission now expects the EU and euro area to contract in the last quarter of this year and first quarter of 2023, amounting to a technical recession, before …

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G7 Russian oil price cap applies only to seaborne crude

06/11/2022 - Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – The price cap on Russian oil exports to be imposed by G7 countries and Australia next month will apply only to seaborne cargoes through the …

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Nurses set to strike in first ever national action – as patients braced for disruption

06/11/2022 - Leave a Comment

Nurses across the UK are set to strike in the first ever national action over a pay dispute. The strike ballot among more than 300,000 members of the Royal College …

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Thousands of Children At Risk of Criminal Exploitation as Government Classifies Modern Slavery as an Immigration Issue

30/10/2022 - Leave a Comment

New data on children in need reveals the scale of criminal and sexual exploitation of children – so why does the Government see modern slavery as an issue for illegal …

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Migration Beyond Capitalism

20/11/2020 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: Harshly exploited migrant labour plays a fundamental role in the political economy of contemporary capitalism. The abstract and utopian theorising of many liberals and leftists on the migration question …

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Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea workers live under a legacy of exploitation

22/09/202025/09/2020 - Leave a Comment

The descendants of Indian Tamil tea plantation workers remain stuck at the bottom of Sri Lankan society. Many of them continue to work under harsh conditions for a meager daily …

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South Africa healthcare workers protest, threaten strike

03/09/202004/09/2020 - Leave a Comment

South African healthcare workers have protested against poor working conditions and urged the government to end corruption in the procurement of coronavirus personal protective equipment. The protesters gathered in Pretoria …

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Domestic workers are the frontline of exploitation in Turkey

25/08/202028/08/2020 - Leave a Comment

According to the Covid-19 report by IMECE Domestic Workers Union, a significant share of domestic workers have been laid off during the pandemic. Those who kept their jobs were forced …

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How Immigrant Essential Workers Are Finding Support During COVID-19

06/07/202010/07/2020 - Leave a Comment

“This is an emergency,” one woman says in Spanish. “They’re keeping us here without masks, without antibacterial gel.” Another woman holds up a sign: “#No-Antibacterial. #SOS.” Then another in an …

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