Word: wage
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...broad front. But trade policy has its low side as well--a battle of narrow interests posturing as national or even international interests. The AFL-CIO is keen to keep out manufactured goods that developing countries can successfully export to the U.S., whether textiles from very low-wage countries or steel from Korea, Brazil and Russia. It marches in Seattle under the hypocritical (or to be more generous, simply erroneous) claim that it represents the interests of the world's workers, when it is in fact mostly representing its own members at the direct cost of much poorer workers...
...developing countries say, in part, thank goodness for the rules, because they can't afford the environmental standards of the U.S. or the wage levels of U.S. and European workers. On the other hand, the developing countries say that U.S. practices are unfair--particularly those regarding intellectual property rights (which indeed deprive the poorest countries of drugs that are available only at monopoly prices protected by patents), and the use of trade barriers against products produced in low-wage countries (such as anti-dumping rules, set not by the WTO, but by the U.S. itself...
...probably have no idea how they'll actually end up spending all those hours. Is this productive, meaningful work, as exciting and intriguing as the brochures claim? Or just old-fashioned drudgery at a hundred hours a week? Is the young analyst an empowered executive or simply a glorified wage slave...
...group used the same tactic in passing the living wage bill...
...immigrant voting rights have been a more controversial measure than the living wage, which attracted near-unanimous support...