Posted on 15 October 2009. Tags: "Free Trade", Asia, Bangladesh, China, Computers, Global Economy, Global Minimum Wage, National Labor Committee
I don’t have much to add on the extremely disappointing and inadequate health care bill that passed the Senate yesterday–it’s been said by others–so I turned my attention to a couple of international developments. Every so often, when I discuss trade, here or in debates elsewhere, people say: well, we live in a […]
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Posted on 07 February 2009. Tags: "Free Trade", China, Computers, Global Economy, National Labor Committee
With the collapse of the financial system, we are witnessing one obvious spectacular failure of the wonders of the "free market". Let’s not forget, though, the other part of the wonderful "free market": the grueling hours, despicable conditions and substandard wages that half the world live in, all a product of the fine system […]
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