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JOHN ELLISON explains how the textile industry in Western countries was hollowed out by low-cost outsourcing at the behest of transnational companies
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
HALF-BURIED in the Guardian in late January last year was a “long read” entitled Behind the Label. It was an edited extract from Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser.
This extract — though you might not guess it from the title — is lucidly revealing and insightful about the workings of post-colonial, globalised, neoliberal imperialism with regard to textile production and trade between the Caribbean Basin and the US from the 1980s onwards.
One outcome of the changes that had taken place is illustrated by the fact that 40 per cent of all clothing bought in the US in 1997 had been produced at home, while in 2012 the figure was less than 3 per cent.
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