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...Hungary. Now he's attempting to duplicate the soil and climate of southern France in his Yunnan fields. If he can create the correct environmental conditions, Wu believes Yunnan's plentiful land and low fixed costs will make him even more of a threat to the European truffle tradition. "Labor is very cheap here," Wu says. "In France they use pigs and dogs to find truffles. We can use humans...
...downtown Johannesburg for more than a century. The neo-Baroque building is filled with paintings of such celebrated past members as British colonizer Cecil Rhodes and the ubiquitous portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. Built on the wealth of the largest goldfield in the world and the sweat of black labor, the club's membership was, until a few years ago, closed to South Africa's blacks. But these days, there's a new breed of tycoon walking the club's wood-paneled corridors and sipping whiskey in its stuffed leather chairs. A black élite has crossed over from politics...
...Claudio Corallo, who, like all cacao-growers, loses 21 percent of his crop to disease and 25 percent to pests. His house has no electricity, and his day starts at 5 a.m. and lasts past sundown. Despite this, Corallo’s situation is probably preferable to the backbreaking labor his employees endure. And yet he sees few of the tremendous profits collected by the large chocolate companies that compete for his beans...
Many activists have said that the Burmese militaryÂ, which provided security for the project, committed human rights abuses—including forced labor, rape, torture, murder, and forced relocation—against peasants in the pipeline area...
Levin has repeatedly stated that Yale would uphold the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) current policy on graduate student unionization, which states that teaching assistants at private universities are not employees according to the definition in the National Labor Relations...