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...staff. "We want the government to stop large corporations from entering the retail segment until it puts in place a national policy that is agreeable to all the stakeholders including small traders, shopkeepers, wholesalers and vendors," says Dharmendra Kumar of India FDI Watch, a coalition of labor unions and trade associations that has been at the forefront of the recent agitation. "Retail is the second-largest employer in the country; the livelihoods of 40 million people are likely to be affected if big players are allowed in at such an alarming pace." Mohun Guruswamy, from the Delhi-based Centre...
...Later-borns, however, don't try merely to please other people; they also try to provoke them. Richard Zweigenhaft, a professor of psychology at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., who revealed the overrepresentation of firstborns in Congress, conducted a similar study of picketers at labor demonstrations. On the occasions that the events grew unruly enough to lead to arrests, he would interview the people the police rounded up. Again and again, he found, the majority were later- or last-borns. "It was a statistically significant pattern," says Zweigenhaft. "A disproportionate number of them were choosing to be arrested...
During the Gilded Age this began to change. Americans increasingly traveled to Europe, where they quickly noticed the longstanding practice of tipping. Hoping to appear cosmopolitan, wealthy travelers brought back the custom. The fad quickly took hold. In the 1910s, more than 10 percent of the labor force accepted tips for their services...
...perhaps just as significantly, Parodi continues, French public opinion that has long tended to back virtually any labor movement by default - often to the amazement of foreign observers - now appears to agree with Sarkozy's view that the time has come for change. "Strikes and opposition to reform has been something of a rite in French society, and there's a feeling today that this reoccurring ritual is now both outdated and counter-productive," Parodi explains. "There's a very strong feeling this time around that enough is enough - it's time to face reality and move ahead...
...first to highlight Harvard’s democratic deficit. Last spring, protestors in Harvard Yard representing the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) pointed towards Massachusetts Hall, which houses the University President’s office, and cried out, “This is what autocracy looks like,” and then, pointing towards themselves added, “this is what democracy looks like...