Undue Influence: Corporations Gain Ground in Battle over China’s New Labor Law
EGYPTIAN TEXTILE WORKER STRIKE: THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY
March 21, 2007 In a previous blog we described an unanticipated upheaval by 27,000 Egyptian textile workers in Mahala El-Kobra (also translated as Mahalla al-Kubra) that occurred at the end of last year. Faced with denial of their year-end bonus, fearing privatization of their company, and disgusted with the corruption of their employers, they… Read More »
IN THE SHADOW OF THE PYRAMIDS
March 14, 2007 Their payment was three weeks late and their supervisors notorious for corruption. So Egyptian workers at Deir El-Medina stopped work and walked out. The year was approximately 1500 BC. It may have been history’s first recorded strike. At the very end of 2006AD another group of Egyptian workers, angered at the… Read More »
EGYPT AND THE PROBLEM OF GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED LABOR MOVEMENTS
March 7, 2007 Two previous posts described an unanticipated wildcat upheaval by 27,000 Egyptian textile workers in Mahala El-Kobra last December and its historical background. This piece looks at Egypt as an example of a wider pattern: How U.S. and other global corporations utilize government-controlled unions created by authoritarian nationalist regimes even as they… Read More »
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