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Posts Tagged ‘Jordan’

Haitham Sabbah – Jordanian, Egyptian and Lebanese Child Labor and Zionist Businessmen

By Haitham Sabbah • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Zionism

By Haitham Sabbah
his might sound off-topic, but it is not and you will know why by reading until the end. Yet, it is so salient to every single one of us who are members of a global society.
As mentioned here, the US Department of Labor released their long-awaited report (PDF) on goods produced by "Child [...]

Sawt el-Amal (the Laborer's Voice) No Bread and No Roses, Arab Women Textile Workers in the Galilee

By Mary Rizzo • Oct 11th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

In the past decade, more than 30,000 textile workers lost their jobs in the Israeli textile industry, and most of them are Arab women. In the first half of 2008, another 850 employees were made redundant as a result of the continued outsourcing of textile manufacturing to cheap-labour countries and the [...]