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conceptual mapping > economy: production and consumption

economy: production and consumption

Recover the community’s ability to produce : the experience of El Ceibo in Argentina

> ReVista (Harvard Review of Latin America), fall 2006, "Social enterprise : making a difference"

Low-income sectors often face tough obstacles and tensions that make it hard to act collectively. But a small group of people, made up of 40 families in a poor Buenos Aires neighborhood, overcame those barriers and organized to change the conscience of residents in Palermo, a trendy Buenos Aires neighborhood, through a collective of garbage recyclers known as El Ceibo . « We don’t recover the material first, we recover people, don’t forget that all of us have a very hard personal history. (...) read

date of on-line publication : 14 December 2006

dossier

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

> Human Rights Watch, november 2006, volume 18, n° 8

Building towers, cheating workers Dubai, with its glittering new skyline of high-rise buildings and its profusion of luxury resorts and real estate, is the most globally emblematic evidence of the economic rise of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). As the UAE undergoes one of the largest construction booms in the world, at least half a million migrant construction workers are employed there. Behind the glitter and luxury, the experiences of these migrant workers present a much less attractive (...) read

date of on-line publication : 1 December 2006

LYDERSEN Kari

Guest workers seek Global Horizons : U.S. company profits from migrant labor

> CorpWatch, November 3rd, 2006

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php (...)

« About 170 Thai migrants paid thousands of dollars to recruiters in Thailand for the opportunity to work in the bountiful orchards of Washington state. Their tale illustrates the pitfalls of the H-2A guest worker program which is a mainstay - along with undocumented labor - of the U.S. agricultural system.
According to the Seattle Times, the migrant workers said they paid up to $8,000 each to Thai recruiters. Global Horizons, a California-based company, works with recruiters abroad and obtains H-2A agricultural guest worker visas, flies workers to Washington and sets them up in housing, as required by the federal program. Global Horizons denies working with any recruiter who received payment from a migrant worker. »  read

date of on-line publication : 16 November 2006

Pambazuka

Africa: Africans Lash Out at Chinese Employers

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category (...)

Deep in the tunnel of the Collum mine, coal dust swirls thickly, and it’s stifling for workers such as Chengo Nguni. He describes his $2-a-day job with a sigh: His supervisor yells incomprehensibly in Chinese. His rubber boots leak. The buttons to control the flow of ore out of the mine often deliver an electric shock. But the worst thing about life in the Chinese-owned mine in southern Zambia is that there is no such thing as a day off. Ever.  read

date of on-line publication : 26 October 2006

CISL

Whose Miracle? How China’s workers are paying the price for its economic boom

> ICFTU, Dec 2005, 69pp

http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument (...)

A report showing that whilst China’s economy is currently experiences huge growth, the majority of the population is yet to benefit, as numbers of newly unemployed rise and workers’ rights are frequently ignored. Furthermore, this report warns that "its deeper integration into the WTO risks further exacerbating this meteoric plunge into inequality."  read

date of on-line publication : 9 February 2006

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UNRISD

Barricades and Boardrooms: A Contemporary History of the Corporate Accountability Movement

> UNRISD, June 7, 2004, 63p., PDF

http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website (...)

This paper identifies the limitations of "voluntary corporate initiatives" like the UN Global Compact. Since many economists believe that transnational corporations undermine world development, UN involvement in such initiatives is problematic.  read

date of on-line publication : 4 January 2006

Alliance 21

Proposals for a socially responsible economy

> Alliance 21, May 2001, 24 pp

http://www.alliance21.org/2003/artic (...)

The current hegemonic model of economic development, based on a capitalist globalisation, may create moderates rates of economic growth, but have given rise to new inequalities. These proposals consider a new development model centered sustainability. A model which is rooted in a shared ethical code which must materialize in a renewed socio-economic regulation.  read

date of on-line publication : 16 December 2005

Choike

Migrant sex work

http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/info (...)

An outline of the debates surrounding sex slavery and migrant sex work. This introduction presents the main contrasting stances: on the one hand, those who believe all forms of prostitution should be abolished, and on the other, those who believe some forms of sex work should be regularised, and who stress that the key issue to distinguish whether the work is forced or not.
The article includes an extensive list of links divided into useful categories.  read

date of on-line publication : 13 December 2005

LUKAS Karin

Are Human Rights Any Business of Business? Corporate Behaviour from a Human Rights Perspective

> November 2005, Globalizacija.com

“Is there an indirect human rights responsibility of corporations that arises from the human rights obligations of their home states? And second, is there a human rights responsibility of corporations themselves, thus a direct human rights responsibility of corporations regardless of the international commitments of their home states?” This paper outlines the evolution of the Corporate Social Responsibility model, describes the international conventions which exist and gives an introduction (...) read

date of on-line publication : 2 December 2005

Tobacco’s Attempts to Derail the Global Tobacco Treaty: Cases from Battleground Countries

> October 2005, Corporate Accountability International

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/si (...)

A report by Corporate Accountability International on the efforts by Big Tobacco (large tobacco corporations) to misguide countries in the South over the Global Tobacco Treaty.  read

date of on-line publication : 2 December 2005

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