Combating Wage Theft
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 12th, 2009 4:34 am by HL
Combating Wage Theft
It is great to see Kim Bobo’s book on wage theft drawing attention on TPMCafe and elsewhere. It is outrageous that millions of workers have their earnings stolen from them by their employers. Hopefully, this book will help to…
Ezra Nawi, Jailed
I have written about Ezra before and have not hidden my admiration. He is a tireless human rights activist, who has established unique connections, and affections, with the villagers in the South Hebron hills. I have often sat in the…
Is there life after the crisis?
A lunch time talk by Niall Ferguson suggests a grim picture. Even if the world economy is not headed towards a 1930s-style catastrophe, it will remain mired in a “depression” like that experience in the 1870s, argues Ferguson, with long-term…