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Worker Abuse

Alleged Worker Abuse At Manufacturer Of Cars 2 Toys

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.30.2011 | Business
Read More: Worker Abuse, Apple, Working Conditions, Foxconn Suicides, Child Labor, Sturdy Products, Foxconn, Sacom, Disney, Labor Abuse, Wal-Mart, China, Cars 2, Business News

Toys bring great joy to many young children. But produced under abusive conditions, they also bring pain. An undercover investigation in Shenzhen,...

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How The Meat Industry Turned Abuse Into A Business Model

Mother Jones | Tom Philpott | Posted 08.30.2011 | Home
Read More: Spam, Worker Abuse, Workers, Abuse, Meat Processing, Meat, Meat Industry, Spam Factory, Home News

As a long-time student of the meat industry, I read Ted Genoways' extraordinary article on conditions at the "head table" of a factory-scale pig-proce...

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The Honor Code and the Arab Gulf

Anastasia Hobbet | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Kuwait, Worker Abuse, Human Rights, Footbinding, The Honor Code, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Honor Killing, Arabian Gulf, Honor Killings, Missionaries, Statistics, Books News
Anastasia Hobbet

There is almost universal agreement that honor killing is un-Islamic. It's also illegal, yet it claims more than a thousand Pakistani women a year, maybe many more.

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Kuwait's Housemaids Need an Arab Lincoln

Anastasia Hobbet | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Worker Abuse, Middle East, Human Rights Watch, Kuwait, World News
Anastasia Hobbet

Until Kuwaiti worker abuse becomes a topic of open debate in society, between friends and colleagues, in the newspapers, online, at the universities, and around dinner tables -- as Abolition was in the U.S. -- little will change.

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