Sweatshop working – not all it seems
Mirjam Muller is a feminist philosopher based in Berlin with a very practical bent: the ethics of sweatshops where most of the clothes we wear are made by women in …
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Migrant workers sent $650bn overseas last year – what it means – Copy
Last Monday, Punjabi farmworker Satnam Singh suffered critical injuries in an accident on an Italian farm — and then his boss left him to die. The shocking case showed how …
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The illusion of stability
Economic calm is always the precursor to a storm. Economics says stability is the sign of a healthy economy. There may be shocks that temporarily knock an economy out of …
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Home Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centres
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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G7 Russian oil price cap applies only to seaborne crude
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
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
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
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
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
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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