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EDITORIAL: Laughing all the way to the bank with Export Credit Agencies

2002-07-01
This issue of ALU is even more of a challenge than usual because it tackles a subject that is not an obvious one for labour.
 
Our theme this quarter deals with governments underwriting investment risks taken by home companies investing abroad. For this reason it is perhaps not dealing as directly with working men and women as usual, but it is so important and under-discussed that the editorial team was unanimous in the decision to investigate the topic.
 
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Export Credit Agencies

2002-05-02
Issue No : 43  April- June 2002
 
EDITORIAL: Laughing all the way to the bank with Export Credit Agencies
This issue of ALU is even more of a challenge than usual because it tackles a subject that is not an obvious one for labour.
 
India: 42 workers perish in factory fire
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Wages

2002-04-04
Issue No : 42  January - March 2002
 
 
Workers Remember!
Together with China Labour Bulletin (CLB) and the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, the Hong Kong Liaison Office of the international trade union movement (IHLO) is launching an international campaign in preparation for 4 June 2002, commemorating the 13th anniversary of the Chinese government’s bloody repression of workers and students near Tiananmen Square.
 
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How long McDonald's cleaners must work to buy a BigMac

2002-04-01
As this issue of ALU is about wages, the editorial team decided it would be a good idea to see how long it would take a cleaner to buy one of the products s/he helps to sell.
 
Now almost a traditional target for anti-globalisation/anti-capitalist protesters, we chose McDonald’s, known throughout the world for union-busting, low pay, and cheap food.
 
 
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Toys, Wages and Retail Prices

2002-04-01
Stephen Frost
 
 
Toys are big business. If we include computer games, the industry accounts for over $71 billion (all currency in this article is in US dollars) annually in retail sales. This is the equivalent of every child on earth spending $34 per year on toys – ranging from a high of $372 in North America to a low of $1 in Africa. In the United States, where over 40 per cent of all toys are consumed, retailers shift over three billion units per year comprising over 125,000 separate designs.
 
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The Minimum Wage

2002-04-01

Chang-Hee Lee

Does a minimum wage policy protect workers who are under pressure in the ‘race to the bottom’ of labour standards in a globalising world economy?

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The Great Money Trick

2002-04-01
From the novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressel (published 1914),
this story traces a year in the life of a group of painters and decorators in the town of Mugsborough in the early twentieth century. Haunted by fears of unemployment, the men struggle to keep their jobs at any cost but, in the course of events, some of them begin to realise that their condition of miserable poverty is neither ‘natural’ nor ‘just’.
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Workers Remember!

2002-04-01

Together with China Labour Bulletin (CLB) and the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, the Hong Kong Liaison Office of the international trade union movement (IHLO) is launching an international campaign in preparation for 4 June 2002, commemorating the 13th anniversary of the Chinese government’s bloody repression of workers and students near Tiananmen Square.

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Globalisation

2002-01-08
Issue No : 41  October - December 2001
 
EDITORIAL: Globalisation and Free Trade Hypocrisy
The term ‘globalisation?is a confusing concept as it means different things to different people.
 
ACTION ALERT: ILO Demands Reinstatement of Sacked Shangri-La Jakarta Workers
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Globalisation and Internet Rights Conference

2002-01-07

Sanjiv Pandita

Is the Internet a common shared public resource, which symbolises free speech in society or is it just a medium to enhance corporate globalisation and a delivery system for neo-liberal agenda? This was one of the issues discussed in the Asia Internet Rights Conference which was held in Seoul from 8 to 12 November 2001.

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