Global Electronics Industry Becomes The “New Nike”

by Garrett Brown Border/Line Health and Safety July 2009 Huge factories of women workers producing consumer products for Europe and the United States under conditions of long hours, low pay, impossibly high production quotas, often unsafe machinery and unhealthy workplace exposures, and sometimes abusive treatment by supervisors and managers. Unions are banned; wages are docked for infractions of “factory rules;” weeks of mandatory overtime occur without a day off; the legal minimum wage

The Case for a V-shaped Jobs Recovery

It is almost universally received wisdom that when the turn comes, we will have a jobless recovery where GDP turns up anemically, but unemployment stubbornly rises. Indeed the most controversial notion in some parts of the econoblogosphere is that of the jobless recovery. as in, can it truly be a recovery if the number of jobless Americans continues to increase? Much moreso than dry GDP figures, wages and employment are what matter to the average American. I too have generally accepted