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Aminul Islam was a 40-year-old labor organizer in the garment industry of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is the second-largest apparel exporting nation (after China) with about $18 billion worth of clothes exported annually & the lowest wage...s in the world at US 20-cents an hour or $37 a month. By all accounts from co-workers…See More
Alan Johnson, Labour MP, disapproves of unions
Alan Johnson, beneficiary of the UK trade union movement, toes the global capitalism party line.http://www.hullcity-unison.org.uk/newsletters/Response%20to%20Militant%20Moderate%20from%20Hull%20City%20Branch%20March%202013.pdfSee More
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Stop further archive destruction at Ruskin College, Oxford
Background:Ruskin College, the trade union and labour movement college, founded in Oxford in 1899, has just moved from its central location to the outskirts of the city. In the course of this move much archival material representing the history of this pioneering College has been destroyed. This includes unique records of the working-class students who attended Ruskin in its first decades.…See More
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Aminul Islam
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Aminul Islam was a 40-year-old labor organizer in the garment industry of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is the second-largest apparel exporting nation (after China) with about $18 billion worth of clothes exported annually & the lowest…
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Alan Johnson, beneficiary of the UK trade union movement, toes the global capitalism party line.
http://www.hullcity-unison.org.uk/newsletters/Response%20to%20Militant%20Moderate%20from%20Hull%20City%20Branch%20March%202013.pdf
IMF Dummies
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 21:53 0 Comments 0 Likes
What do you know? The IMF got its sums wrong on the efficacy of austerity measures. Fortunately the mistake didn't impact on the rich.
http://www.humanite.fr/sites/default/files/pdf/2013/fmi.pdf
Stop further archive destruction at Ruskin College, Oxford
Posted on October 7, 2012 at 20:51 1 Comment 1 Like
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Ruskin College, the trade union and labour movement college, founded in Oxford in 1899, has just moved from its central location to the outskirts of the city. In the course of this move much archival material representing the history of this pioneering College has been destroyed. This includes unique records of the working-class students who attended Ruskin in its first decades.…
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- At 19:38 on March 6, 2012,
peter waterman said… OK, Jeremy. It now occurs to me you might approach Richard Hyman since he might be familiar with unions from that period. Also, in any case, the International Association of Labour Historians (something like this), via the website of the International Inst of Lab Hist. And, more directly, a short question to the Research Director, Marcel vd Linden, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of labour history and would be sympathetic to anything that sounded at little bit IWW anyway.
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