Schlagwort: Exploitation
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Committee for a Workers‘ International: International Women’s Day
[Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 26-30] On 8 March 1857, in New York, the first mass demonstration of women workers took place in revolt against abysmal pay and working conditions, a date which has been commemorated since as International Women’s Day. Over 140 years on, real economic and social advances have been made…
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Jeremy Birch: Third World living standards and the post-war boom. . . ‚An unending nightmare of squalor and destitution‘
[Militant International Review, No. 31, Summer 1986, p. 12-15] During the prolonged world economic upswing of 1950 to 1973 more was produced than in all the centuries of human endeavour combined up until then. This brought rising living standards compared to the inter-war years and virtual full employment to Europe and North America. Based upon…