Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have titles," he said. "People have been dividing up labor, and no one is taxed with being the official leader, because we'd like to be democratic in spirit and in process...
...been a U.S. territory since the end of World War II. Li Li is one of 40,000 foreign contract workers, mostly from China, Bangladesh and the Philippines, shipped in to service a garment industry that exploits Saipan's exemption from a number of American labor and immigration controls. This allows the garment factories, most run by Chinese or South Korean firms, to pay foreign laborers substantially less than the minimum wage but still export nearly $1 billion worth of clothes annually to American markets--patriotically stamped MADE IN THE USA and free of duties and quotas that apply...
...Saipan if she had known what the working conditions were like. But having borrowed the equivalent of $2,800 to pay the "recruitment fee" in China, she cannot return until she has earned at least enough to pay off the loan. "That comes close to the definition of indentured labor," says Allen Stayman, insular-affairs director at the U.S. Department of the Interior, who is pressuring the Northern Marianas to clean up sweatshop practices or face a federal takeover of immigration and labor controls. "The local immigration and labor departments are essentially organized crime," says Stayman...
...contributions on elections and government policy is a "major problem." Many journalists agree. According to editorial writers for The New York Times, the U.S. has "a system that makes money more important than the public will." What with "huge open-ended campaign contributions by rich individuals, corporations and labor unions," the concerns of average Americans are pushed aside...
...Dartboard wonder whether the White House internships, those coveted slave-labor assignments of so many gov jocks, will ever earn back their former prestige. For now, Harvard students who put their White House jobs on top of their resumes will pause as they carefully define their "experience." Meanwhile, their parents, once thrilled to brag about their offspring's political stardom, will now tell people that their children worked "in Washington, in, uh...well--oh, I don't remember, maybe in the Senate or something...