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Indian campaign against child labour
occupations are moved to newer depths of poverty. For instance, there is evidence in Bangladesh of children ... who have done carpet weaving or worked in garment factories who have moved to prostitution or farm ...
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Philippines: Urban poor fight for their land (with photos)
by a bewildering and depressing juxtaposition of functioning factories, closed and partially ... demolished factories, urban poor communities, demolished urban poor communities, upmarket shopping centres ... the same factors have led to factories relocating, in some cases to the neighbouring provinces of ...
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10 new albums from artists who know Black Lives Matter
coronavirus pandemic reached Bangladesh, a worker-owned factory there that makes "No Sweat" ...
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Microcredit, microresults
widely acclaimed Grameen Bank, the Bangladesh bank that lends to poor rural women, Yunis has found a rapt ... "landless women in Bangladesh, the poorest of the poor" are miraculously transformed into businesswomen ... skills, mediation, lobbying and project assistance. The Bangladesh Rural Action Committee provides ...
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Malaysian socialist: COVID-19 means we cannot go back to business as normal
minimum wage in Malaysia is MYR1200 and median factory wage is about MYR1700, so MYR1600 per family is ... should look at areas like Cox鈥檚 Bazar in Bangladesh, where the 700,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps ...
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May Day: World protests target capitalist austerity
conditions, especially for those working in garment factories. Bangladesh is the world's second biggest ... In the Bangladesh capital of Dhaka, thousands of workers took to the streets to demand better working ...
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Socialist Alliance: Long live May Day! Unite to fight back!
workers in Bangladesh who were recently killed in the collapse of their factory. We hold the big branded ... http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53981 Bangladesh: Huge May Day march mourns dead, demands justice http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53980 ...
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Consumers not to blame for sweatshop wages
that hooks up retailers like Macy鈥檚 and Kohl鈥檚 with suppliers in low-wage countries like Bangladesh ... clothing stitched in Bangladesh. 鈥淭his isn鈥檛 just the fault of companies who supply cheap clothes,鈥 ... many assembly workers and creating safe conditions in their factories, all at no extra cost to ...
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Workers mark May Day globally
and the use of scab workers. 鈥淎nd in Bangladesh, many thousands of garment workers used the day to ... demand punishment for negligent factory owners and compensation for their victims in Dhaka.鈥 In Havana, ...
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How globalised super-exploitation makes modern capitalism tick
factory in Rana Plaza, Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1133 workers and injuring 2500 others. This ... violence to bring more people into its factories. Workers died like flies and there was a real concern that ... there might not be a replacement generation of toilers for the factories. However, in its mature phase, ...
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Global inequality: Capitalism is to blame
in garment factories in Bangladesh combined. But to survive, Capitalism also relies on its ability to ... production to countries such as Bangladesh, while their corporate headquarters are maintained elsewhere 鈥 in ...
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India: Auto workers fight for union rights, freedom for activists
Workers & unions Economy Immanuel Ness Suzanne Adely If Bangladesh represents the worst of ... exploitation in clothing factories, India is home to the most rapacious conditions for auto workers. Auto ... a militarised perimeter around the factory. Two thousand people showed up for a rally on July 18 despite the ...
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Asbestos 鈥 not here, not anywhere
limit. A former worker and victim of asbestos disclosed that workers often slept in the factory where ... they worked and where the asbestos dust was dense. Factory owners do not tell workers that asbestos ... could kill and there was little community and public awareness on the issue. Some factories carried out ...
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Squeezing the Third World
Philippines, are expected to decline steeply as factories close and workers are sent home. According to ... the Philippines, $17.2 billion; and Bangladesh, $6.6 billion; according to the IOM's World ... told AFP when asked what she earned from her stint at the ASE semiconductor factory near Taipei, which ...
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Haiti's misery: good news for big business
Bangladesh, and Haitians in the slums would tell you that their most fervent wish is for jobs. A few dozen ... major shirt factories could be transformational for Haiti." 'Disaster capitalism' In her ...
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Jan Lacey 1953-2005
factory conditions as Dickensian. She became involved in the union, which later became part of the Textile ... Labour Federation of Bangladesh. Alf Lacey, the respected Palm Island activist who coincidentally shared ...
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Australia: toxic exports outlaw
complain that pollution from the factory is destroying their agriculture. Locals complain of nausea, ... dumped tin plate waste in Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Singapore. ...
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The timber with blood in its grain
Mon, Karen and Karenni people have been forced to seek asylum in Thailand. On the Bangladesh border, ... The majority of the timber then finds its way to factories in the United States, Japan, Denmark and ... supplying arms from a Rangoon factory. In 1990 Pepsi signed a US$2.5 million joint venture with SLORC for ...
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What if Tony Abbott spoke the truth?
Democracy Peter Boyle Five words sum up federal opposition leader Tony Abbott's response to some sharp questions put to him by journalist Leigh Sales in the August 22 episode of ABC TV's 7.30: Liar, liar, pants on fire! If you need a good exampl ...
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鈥楾he only answer to organised corporate greed is organised labour鈥
a factory worker, a waitress and casual worker throughout her life. My dad was a lifelong public sector ... wealth of US$73 billion.聽 The workers who make their products in Bangladesh are paid US$70 a month. The ...
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A World to Win: Everything for Everyone!
non-unionised and casual jobs, we are tiny cogs in the same system that causes factory collapses in Bangladesh ...
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Japan: Nuclear power on the ropes as m'vt grows
several developing countries, including India, Bangladesh and Jordan. Approval for the export of nuclear ... of fixed capital invested in the factories designed to produce the reactors. Unless these ...
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Travels through 鈥榯he other鈥 鈥 the world imperialism has made
right that al-Qaeda is massing a huge army in Pakistan and that its strategy is to infiltrate Bangladesh ... within Somalia. Piracy became the only source of income for many after foreign factory fishing boats ...
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INDONESIA: Wahid surrenders sovereignty to IMF
supply of kerosene shrank and its price shot up before the official increases. Cement factories increased ... people now live below the international poverty standard of US$2 per day, more than in Bangladesh or ...
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Behind the food crisis: \'capitalism\'s historical failure'
price of rice and other staple foods. 鈥n Bangladesh, more than 20,000 workers from textile factories in ... production has been completely wiped out. 鈥n Bangladesh in November, one of the strongest cyclones in ...