Capital Mobility

 

Today, many garment workers and their advocates are concerned about how free trade policies will impact the daily lives of workers. On 31 December 2004, all textile and apparel quotas are scheduled to be eliminated for the 148 countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), bringing near-complete free trade of textiles and apparel. 

 

Edited Reprint

 

 

 

Car production is increasing in Asia.

 

 

For the last two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has been regarded as one of the primary tools for national economic development.

 

 

The old approach

50 years ago Aotearoa/New Zealand’s employers and government launched an attack on one of the country’s strongest unions. Thousands of watersiders (dockworkers and stevedores) were locked out of employment, and police attacked their rallies. Using emergency laws, the government went so far as to make it an offence to give food to watersiders’ families.