Slaves of fashion: outworkers in the garment industry
By Kim Linden
Imagine a job where you work 12 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week for about $2 an hour. Worse, you have to use inappropriate and sometimes dangerous machinery, you are subject
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Work harder.
Make someone else redundant.
This is efficiency.
Competition is our salvation.
This way we cost our betters less.
One day we'll be internationally competitive
and get paid a dollar
for a fourteen hour day.
Then we'll
Trading in pollution is a dirty game
By Chow Wei-Cheng
In the recent debate on tradeable emissions in Green Left Weekly, Clive Hamilton from the Australia Institute argued that such schemes can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in
Me Darcy, you Jane
"It is a truth universally acknowledged", wrote Jane Austen, "that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife".
This notion is the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice — a book which appeared
By Norm Dixon
Opposition is growing to Papua New Guinea's impending military offensive against rebel strongholds in Bougainville. Most harmful to Port Moresby's cause has been criticism voiced by Theodore Miriung, Premier in the PNG-appointed
By Rebecca Meckelburg
SYDNEY — The success of the East Timor: its future in the Asia Pacific conference, held June 21-24, was indicated by the attendance of more than 350 people, including 80 international guests. Another very positive outcome,
Refugee Week forum on Burma
CANBERRA — Forty people attended a forum on June 28 to discuss the current situation in Burma. The event, organised by the Young Christian Workers as part of Refugee Week, was addressed by Mary Way from the Burmese
By Liam Mitchell
SYDNEY — Over the next few weeks, the NSW government will conclude the Interim assessment process to confirm which areas of native forest will be protected from logging. This is the second stage of the government's forest
By Lisa Macdonald
Janet, a mother of four from Yorkshire, works at home packing gift tags which retail for £1.50 per bag. She works up to 15 hours a day sorting, counting and stapling bags of the tags. She receives just £7.50 per thousand
By Dick Nichols
As John Howard faces his first wave of protest from students and education workers, building and waterside workers, his response shows that he's not yet confident of success. Faced with broad fronts like that of university
By Nico Warouw
On July 26, almost 200 Indonesians living in Sydney attended a public meeting in Marrickville organised by a newly formed organisation, Forum Solidaritas Australia Indonesia (FSAI, Indonesia-Australia Solidarity Forum). Speakers
Gaining access to education is one of the cornerstones of achieving women's liberation. Currently women make up over half the students in Australian tertiary institutions. This has led Ian Dobson, a senior academic at Monash University, to argue that
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