
The New Economy
An Evaluation of the Opposing Views of my Two Teachers
By Professor M.M. Akash for Samakal; translated for Alal O Dulal by Professor Farida Khan. Continue reading “The New Economy”
An Evaluation of the Opposing Views of my Two Teachers
By Professor M.M. Akash for Samakal; translated for Alal O Dulal by Professor Farida Khan. Continue reading “The New Economy”
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre” is an appropriate last chapter for a book that is an amazing picture of the wheels of global capitalism as it lifts some and crushes others over centuries, continuously depleting “the reservoirs of human energy” and “the limited treasures of a wasting planet”. Continue reading “LABOR: World in a Shirt and Infinity in a Stitch”
The Tazreen fire and Rana Plaza collapse has made many Western consumers shudder at the thought of their complicity with sub-human conditions in the Third World factories where their clothes are sewn. While consumers are often careful to avoid purchasing soccer balls sewn by child labor Continue reading “Reflections on “Unprecedented Changes” in the Garments Sector of Bangladesh”