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...Europe editor of Farmers Weekly magazine. If you take the long working hours into account, Clarke adds, that's below the minimum wage. Not surprisingly, a 2002 study by Exeter University found that about 60% of farms were engaged in some form of diversification, ranging from contracting out labor and machinery to running a bed-and-breakfast. "It used to be a question of farmers' wives offering rooms on the side, but now for many it's a full-time business," says Nigel Embry, who runs Farm Stay UK, a nonprofit body that publishes a directory of farms that take...
...farming, have declined. Will young people who have fled the east be drawn back to work in the smelting plant and other businesses that Alcoa's presence may generate when many of them can work, for example, in the tech and pharmaceutical sectors in Reykjavík? "The labor market [in Iceland] is very flexible," Arnalds says. "If the smelter does not attract people back from Reykjavík, it will attract people from the villages of eastern Iceland...
...examines the consequences of globalization for poverty and development, labor and the environment, national sovereignty, international conflict, political identity, cultural diversity, and democratic governance,” the course description reads. “It considers competing perspectives on issues such as outsourcing, free trade versus protectionism, the relation between democracy and capitalism, and the backlash against globalization...
...JULY 5] Addressed the sex-discrimination lawsuit brought against the giant retailer by female employees. But the company mistreats all workers. As your story noted, there are more than 30 lawsuits that accuse Wal-Mart of cheating employees out of overtime pay. The company has fought to keep out labor unions, and pays hourly workers a very low wage. Your report overemphasized the retailer's discrimination against women, suggesting that paying women less than men is more serious than paying poverty-level wages for all hourly employees. That attitude could be considered a kind of gender discrimination--against male hourly...
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich told a crowd of hundreds of liberals at the Campaign for America’s Future “Take Back America” events Tuesday that he would teach them an entire economics course in 10 minutes to debunk myths about a recovery propagated by the Bush administration...