... 's outfit is $12.05 (40 hours wages). (Made in China: Behind the Label 1998) Factory owners force overtime on their workers when production quotas are high and overtime pay is often cheated. Either it remains unpaid or they are compensated at the standard rate. At the Hung Wah factory if a worker is late ... labour] that is endlessly in demand." (Bearak p.1) These fires are nothing new to the sweatshops of Bangladesh, since 1995 there have been 30 fires with 17 cases involving casualties. But there was another instance of such disregard for human life on May 10th 1993 in a garment factory...

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... - joined hands with representatives of American Right and Left to launch an impressive protest rally against the IMF on the occasion of its annual meeting in Washington D.C. on April 16/17, 2000, following a similar protest against the WTO a year earlier in Seattle, Washington. Loud cries of "Break the Bank, Defund the Fund, Dump the Debt- were heard during these demonstrations. Patrick ... Bond eloquently summarized the sentiments of April 16/17 (2000) protest: For socialists, defunding the Fund and breaking the Bank can dramatically improve global and local power balances, open up radi...

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... THE NATURAL RATE RISEN? A wide variety of explanations have been offered for the apparent rise in the natural rate of unemployment. The first part is that persistent high unemployment can be explained by the disincentive effects of welfare state policies. The second part is that market forces pushing toward greater inequality have worsened the unemployment consequences of ... to justify U.S. trade barriers against developing-country imports. Shutting down those factories, by any means necessary, is now a top priority of anti-free traders. In one recent high-profile example, students at t...

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