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...ROBIN MUNRO, research director at the China Labour Bulletin, a rights-monitoring group, after Wal-Mart announced it would consider allowing unions in its 41 stores in China, something it has refused to do in any other nation, including...
Menendez leads Isabel to a shelf of children’s books in the living room, picking up one of her childhood favorites, How to Behave and Why by Munro Leaf. Sitting on the wood floor, with Augustine on her lap, she begins to read in a clear, confident voice: “This is a book about how to behave, and it doesn’t matter whether you are a boy or a girl, a man or a woman—the rules are all the same...
...company succumbed to pressure from the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the only legal labor organization in China. The ACFTU has struggled to gain a foothold in the country's booming private sector. "Imagine what American workers in Wal-Mart stores are going to say," says Robin Munro, research director at the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin. "'Chinese workers living under communism are allowed to have unions in Wal-Mart stores, but we in America aren...
...DIED. JOHN G. (JACK) MCCLELLAND, 81, flamboyant Canadian publisher who shepherded the careers of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler and many others; in Toronto. Known for his publicity stunts, McClelland once donned a toga with author Sylvia Fraser and rode in a chariot to promote her novel The Emperor's Virgin. "I can usually tell if a manuscript is good," he once said, "but I can't tell...
...your David--on one side, painting pictures so slick, they look as if they have been freshly buffed and polyurethaned. Then along came the Impressionists, with their rough-textured, gnarly, worked-looking canvases. Among contemporary fiction writers we have purveyors of lapidary, polished, M.F.A.-perfect prose--John Updike, Alice Munro--and on the other side, a grab bag of avant-gardists (like David Foster Wallace), witty pyrotechnicians (Jonathan Franzen) and operatic monologists (Toni Morrison) who fling words upon the page in heavy, meaningful daubs. Now, just as they did back then, it's the second bunch...