Globalization
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Labor, Accountability and Safety in the Global Era
By Karen Judd At Thursday’s breakfast forum, Decent Wages and Accountability to Workers in the Garment Global Supply Chain, former New York Times Labor Journalist Steven Greenhouse, whose coverage of the Rana Plaza disaster put global sweatshops again on the front page, said: “Overseas sweatshops are the logical result of globalization and the race to…
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South Asian Contract Workers at NYU’s Abu Dhabi Campus Exploited
Dr. Stephen Brier is part of the Consortial Faculty at The Murphy Institute As if we needed yet another indication that New York University (NYU) exploits its employees (while also blatantly disregarding the needs and desires of its downtown neighbors), The New York Times reports on the deplorable conditions experienced by South Asian contract workers…
