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...with hopes of economic betterment, but once they arrive many discover that they can expect to have a hard time. Unable to complain to authorities, aliens working as domestics, farm hands, restaurant employees or garmentmakers often must tolerate meager wages in return for the tasks they perform and sweatshop conditions on the job. Says a young Greek who jumped ship seven years ago: "We don't take jobs away from the Americans. Greeks wash dishes in restaurants for $100 a week. Americans won't do that." Yet in March, when the INS rounded up 50 aliens employed...
...American Friends Service Committee report on the Blue Sky sweatshop as well as congressional hearings convey a very different picture...
Tune and place are also cut loose; interwoven with the story of Karl's transformation are 18 historical sketches covering more than 100 years of European history. Moorcock shows Karl as an orphan who sees his mother murdered in the Paris Commune of 1871. From a London sweatshop in 1906 he is drawn into revolutionary violence. Later he plays the violin in Auschwitz. The book is by turns puzzling, funny and shocking. By 1990, with Karl sitting in the ruins of London, Moorcock has brilliantly demonstrated his point-that man's imagination has always driven him deep Into...
...discussion of steps to ease the U.S.-Japanese trade imbalance will be high on the agenda when President Nixon and Premier Tanaka meet in Hawaii late this month. Westerners commonly believe that Japan has built its towering trade surplus because its workers are selflessly willing to toil for sweatshop wages. But TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel argues that this is not the real reason for Japan's success. The high productivity of Japan's modern, well-automated plants is a much more important factor...
...visit to Tsu makes a shambles of the sweatshop theory of Japanese competitiveness. Workers earn only $335 a month, compared with wages averaging $588 a month in Sweden or $718 in U.S. shipyards, but the real competitive edge is Tsu's production technique...