Mois : juillet 2016

… for Those Who Know Little or Nothing about Labor – Published on ZNet (first on Green Social Thought), by Kim Scipes, July 15, 2016.

… Perhaps the most important part of the Introduction is that I disentangle the concepts of globalization and neo-liberal economics, about which there is much confusion. Influenced strongly by and following the work of the Netherlands-born scholar, Jan Nederveen Pieterse (1989, 2004, 2008, 2015), I argue that globalization has existed for a very long time—since the beginning of human migration—and precedes capitalism, modernity and “the West.” Continuer la lecture de « Building Global Labor Solidarity Today »

… the Child Laborers from Syria – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Claas Relotius, July 14, 2016 (Photo Gallery).

Ahmed and Alin were 10 and 11 years old when their parents died in Aleppo. They fled to Turkey and now work there as child laborers — collecting scrap and working in a sweat shop. They dream of escape, but don’t know how … // Continuer la lecture de « The Story of Ahmed and Alin: Syrian Orphans Trapped in Turkey – part 1 »

Update: Theresa May to hand out more jobs in first cabinet, on BBC, July 14, 2016: Prime Minister Theresa May will continue to form her new government later – as she begins her first full day in Downing Street; more on Google Web-search, Google News-search, and on YouTube-search;
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Published on Dissident Voice, by Ramzy Baroud, July 12, 2016.

Last year, I wrote an article that made many readers unhappy. As soon as it was published, I began receiving messages of abuse and angry, threatening calls.   Continuer la lecture de « Being Black Palestinian: Solidarity as a Welcome Pathology »

Published on Labor Notes.org, by Jane Slaughter, July 07, 2016.

Three big wins for workers in the last nine months arrived where you might least expect them: in the old, blue-collar economy. That’s the economy where unions are down to 6.7 percent, where wins are rare and workers are supposed to be on their way out. Continuer la lecture de « Three Recent Wins Prove Old-Fashioned Union Power Isn’t Dead Yet »