Simon Atkinson wrote:
>Ben Blaney said:
>
>>The globalisation wankers will tell you that its progress that theyre
>>now made by child-slaves in Eastern sweatshops.
>
>Youve not spent a lot of time in a Northamptonshire factory that mass
>produces shoes have you?
No, thats true.
>Im sure they are far better than the Eatern Sweatshops, but to be
>honest, they were not models of employee utopian workplaces.
Oh, sure. But, as you say, theyre bound to be better than the Eastern
sweatshops.
>Noisy,
>dangerous machinery (hard to really guard a toe-laster), low pay and
>leather dust in the air, mixed with solvents.
As a socialist, Id say that improving all these things for the workers
in a central part of the vision, and that without the union movement,
wed still have C19th conditions. Of course, the kind of feeble-minded
moron who believes what The Sun prints would come back with some cliche
about the unions getting too powerful and Maggie being right to make
pretty much everything left-wing illegal.
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Posted: 2003-07-26 21:57:15
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