Jamaica vs. the Transnationals: Battle Over Bauxite
The Jamaican government took several important steps vis-a-vis the bauxite industry in 1974. First, it began negotiations with the companies ...
III. INTERNATIONAL HAZARDS: YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE
The struggle to free the work process of occupational injury and disease is difficult. Although U.S. workers have made some ...
Bauxite Dependency: Roots of Crisis
Two of Jamaica's most popularly known exports to the U.S. are reggae music and "ganja," the potent marijuana that flourishes ...
LABOR: Capital Shapes a New Workforce
When the world-wide recession of 1975 hit full force, hundreds of thousands of workers in the electrical equipment industry from ...
Globalization: The Double-edged Sword
Activists struggling for human rights have always aspired to global reach, but in the last generation that reach has begun ...
In the Name of Fashion: Exploitation in the Garment Industry
As you read this article, there is a good chance that you or someone close to you is wearing clothing ...
Immigration: Carter’s Anti-Labor Plan
Few of President Carter's policy decisions have so clearly demonstrated the influence of domestic and transnational corporations and the administration's ...
Who Owns Knowledge?
In Latin the word scientia means "knowledge––and our word "science" means, at base, "systems of knowledge" and "ways we come ...
