Slaves, Montgomery, Alabama, 1861 Harold Meyerson overstates his argument on the Southern economy as the point of low-wage capitalist production both before the Civil War and today, but he makes.
Please read this Human Rights Watch report on union busting in Bangladesh's garment industry. Two years after Rana Plaza, conditions have changed slightly for the better because of pressure from.
This is precisely the reason why we need to be able to hold American corporations legally accountable for the actions of the suppliers: Textile companies that make clothing for transnational.
This is a really fascinating interview with Indian novelist Rana Dasgupta on the impact of capitalism upon India. While I think he's a bit too sanguine about the history and.
Jason Motlagh and Josh Eidelson have an excellent piece up on the horrors of the Bangladeshi leather industry. When you buy leather goods, where do you think the leather comes.
Too often, we, even liberals, create politically convenient artificial barriers between the globalized economy and national boundaries. Specifically, we have outsourced the vast majority of our industrial production overseas while.
The story of Youngstown's decline is one that many of you are familiar with. A big industrial steel town that was destroyed by the capital migration of the steel industry.
It's no secret that I see unrestrained capital mobility as a global plague creating a New Gilded Age that makes it nearly impossible for workers to build dignified lives against.
