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Article #130Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005
From: wafflycat
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:33
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:33
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"Just zis Guy, you know?" <norfolk.inspam@dev.null> wrote in message news:hjn7c15pm54qqv8or04s09u5usteu3b688@4ax.com... > > Allegedly. Although there's precious little evidence of it benefiting > the average Nike sweatshop worker. > > If Western companies offered Western levels of employee rights in the > third world, I would find your point a lot more compelling. What they > actually do, in many cases, is exploit cheap labour. > And the cheap labour is no longer cheap enough. I was listening to a Radio 4 prog the other day... reporting from Africa (forget which country.. possibly Gambia), where call centres are being set up to employ local cheap labour as the local cheap labour is even cheaper than the cheap labour in India which undercut the jobs in the UK.. Cheers, helen s
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