1.2.1 Introduction Looking back over the 1970s, it is perhaps hard now to appreciate just how dramatic were the changes to the global map of industry taking place at that time. As more and more of the world's industry shifted from the affluent nations to the poorer, less developed countries in search of a cheaper labour force, the global economic map had to be redrawn to take account of the borders crossed and the distances traversed by firms from wealthier countries seeking to generate higher profits by reloca
1.1.3 Introduction continued The difficulty perhaps is that things which happen at some distance from the everyday routine of our lives are often hard to place or connect with. Moreover, it has to be said that not everyone views factory sweatshops in quite the same way as groups such as Oxfam, or indeed endorses their negative claims about the use of cheap labour in places such as East Asia. For that is what the statements of such groups are: claims. And they are far from uncontroversial. In fact, it is poss
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Introduction Many of the smaller branded goods on sale to consumers in Europe and North America – the latest in clothing and footwear or the smart toys and electronic gadgets on offer – are made in factory ‘sweatshops’. Found in the backstreets of modern, Western cities, but more often than not a feature of the poorer parts of the world, factory sweatshops are an integral part of today's global economy. Increasingly, as you can see from Author(s):
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June 30 - Chrystia Freeland talks with Siemens CEO, Eric Spiegel, and Atlantic senior writer, James Fallows about competitiveness in today's global economy and the German exception.
June 30 - Ron Brownstein of the Atlantic talks to Chrystia Freeland about the debt ceiling and the politics in Washington surrounding this issue.
July 1 - Venezuela President Hugo Chavez confirms he underwent surgery in Cuba to remove cancerous cells. Julie Noce reports.
July 1 - Britain's manufacturing expanded at its slowest pace in almost two years last month as factories reduced hiring and new orders fell, raising concerns about the health of the broader economic recovery.
July 1 - GDP-linked bonds in the proposed rollover for Greece are too punitive and likely to prove counterproductive, says Columbia University's Stephany Griffith-Jones, long-time advocate of GDP-linked debt.
