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	1918 Labour Party Manifesto - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Labour Party has left the Coalition, and is appealing to the men and women of the country with a programme that is a challenge to reaction.
		Labour's appeal to the people is not a sectional appeal, unless an appeal which excludes only militarists, profiteers, and place-hunters be regarded as sectional.
		The Labour Party stands for the destruction of all war-time measures in restraint of civil or industrial liberty, the repeal of the Defence of the Realm Act, the complete abolition of Conscription, and the release of all political prisoners.
	www.labour-party.org.uk /manifestos/1918/1918-labour-manifesto.shtml (1082 words)

	Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890—1930 - Cambridge University Press
		Modern labour is often experienced, and represented, as oppressive, intense and deadening, and as such we might assume that it would be seen as the negation of the individual.
		His method was to reduce labour to its simplest components, to devise the most efficient method of carrying out each minute part of a task, and to devise pay structures that would reward workers for modifying their habitual work routines in favour of those known to be more efficient.
		We have seen that sweated labour was associated with immigrant communities, but it was also associated with women, who were held to be driving down wages by agreeing to work in such dreadful conditions.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521834597&ss=exc (4514 words)

	Appendix — The Author's Autobiographical Reminiscences
		Victorian women provided a vast reservoir of labour, necessary for an expanding though immature economy whose fluctuations demanded additional workers at one time, fewer at another.
		The Census of 1851, the first to attempt to count occupations in any detail, gave a total of 2.8 million women and girls over the age of ten in employment out of a female population of 10.1 millions, forming a proportion of 30.2 per cent of the whole labour force.
		(In 1901 they composed 29.1 per cent and in 1931 29-8 per cent of the labour force, though compulsory schooling to fourteen by the latter year has to be taken into account.) Domestic service took by far the greatest number in 1851 — 905,000, not including 145,000 washerwomen and 55,000 charwomen.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/work/burnett2.html (240 words)

	Tomorrow We Live
		Because it is impossible for Labour genuinely to increase purchasing power in face of the sweated competition of the international system, which they support, they turn to the false creation of illusory purchasing power by the disastrous measure of inflation.
		So Labour is left holding the baby of decaying industry while the rogues of capitalism make merry with the proceeds of "compensation" in the decadence of a dying system, and the arms of Government are cluttered with their discarded and exhausted offspring.
		Labour's financial proposals are confined to the meaningless gesture of nationalising the Bank of England, which for all practical purposes under any strong system of Government is nationalised already.
	www.oswaldmosley.com /tomorrow/chapter3.htm (5582 words)

	THE GLOBALIZATION OF PRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL LABOUR STANDARDS.Publications and Reports. Human Rights Research and ...
		In core countries, sweated labour has tended to be limited to a few sectors such as parts of the apparel industry which for various reasons, such as constantly changing fashions, has continued to rely on labour-intensive production techniques.
		Labour movements from Australia to Chile and the U.S. are calling for social provisions (referred to as the "social clause") to be included in the new wave of international trade agreements.
		The essential international labour standards are normally considered to be freedom of association, freedom to organize and bargain collectively, prohibition of forced labour, minimum age for employment, and the right to acceptable conditions of work.
	www.uottawa.ca /hrrec/publicat/globalstandards.html (13981 words)

	ILO Labour market policies in Asian countries: Diversity and similarity among Singapore, Malaysia,the Republic of Korea ...
		It may well be that the labour market is highly efficient where public job placement and advice or vocational training are entrusted to the market or deregulated and the firms' roles in these areas are significant, or where direct employment by national or local governments is of little importance.
		Changes in the labour market may be summarised as follows: first, talk of excess labour supply and disguised unemployment died away and was replaced by concern with labour shortages, specifically of young workers and technically skilled workers.
		In order to understand the government's labour market policies at the time it is necessary to take account of the perceived need to prohibit and suppress traditional pre-war employment practices such as "sweated labour" under cover of training within an enterprise or job placement by worker supply businesses.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/strat/publ/etp34.htm (16508 words)

	Joy Damousi \| Agnes Milne : the Factory Inspector as Political Agitator, 1896–1906 \| Labour History, 87 \| The ...
		By repeatedly raising the problem of sweating in her reports and in strenuously arguing for this working experience to be fully documented, Milne used her position to advance the rights of the woman worker.
		In consequence of the cruel hardships which the sweating evil has inflicted on a large section of the working women of Adelaide, it is proposed that an effort should be made to start a small Shirt Factory on principles which will give to the workers the full fruits of their labour...
		In 1901 she reported that the 'sweating evil' continuously 'fell to my lot', although factory inspection was not originally intended to serve as a platform for the expression of explicit workers' demands.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/87/damousi.html (9101 words)

	Social Responsibility, Profits and Social Accountability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But child labour may be part of the family's struggle to survive as may be the case when the father is unemployed or badly paid, when their own small business is struggling to survive, or when all are engaged in sweated home labour at low rates of pay.
		Since profits can be increased by reducing labour costs, those wishing to increase profits aim to reduce the standard of living of the people as a whole, aim to increase their needs so that they will work for less.
		Child labour, for example, is part of the family's struggle to survive and here we saw legislation protecting the community, in this case prohibiting the exploitation of children by sweated labour and low rates of pay.
	www.solbaram.org /articles/sclrsp.html (16411 words)

	Mackenzie King and Labour - Mackenzie King - Exhibitions - Library and Archives Canada
		In 1897, while conducting research into the Canadian garment industry, King discovered that the uniforms of Canadian postal workers were produced by sweated labour.
		For King, the Labour Gazette was a key government initiative because it promoted the objective study of labour as a social science.
		The crushing electoral defeat that King experienced at the hands of his Conservative rival during the 1911 general election was a great blow, and for a while King endeavoured to continue working for the Liberal Party, namely as the Director of the Liberal Information Office in 1912.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /king/053201/053201130201_e.html (871 words)

	Glossary of Terms: La
		Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature participate, and in which man of his own accord starts, regulates, and controls the material re-actions between himself and Nature.
		The quantitative aspect of that act of measuring the labour of one against the labour of another is the determination of value.
		There can be no doubt that the labour theory of value tells us important things about the way people relate to one another in bourgeois society and the growth of these relations into entities which take on the appearance of objective laws of nature.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/terms/l/a.htm (5956 words)

	ABSTRACTS from Labour/Le Travail 32, Fall 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As the garment trades became rife with sweating, a process conditioned by the structured inequalities of class and gender, they became a major source of wage labour for women.
		A LABOUR SHORTAGE in 1922, the promise of a bumper yield in 1923, and increased imperialist settlement resulted in the recruitment of nearly 12,000 British workers to assist Canadian harvesters with the 1923 prairie wheat crop.
		While their march proved futile in the short term, it was an early example of escalating militancy among the unemployed, both domestic and immigrant, which helped to focus attention on both the plight of unskilled labour in a national economy and on the short-sighted, employer-driven immigration policies.
	www.mun.ca /cclh/llt/ab/ab32.html (1894 words)

	The Charles Booth Centre for the Study of Social Investigation
		Blackburn argued that sweated workers were brought to public attention as an off shoot of the factory commission inquiries of the 1840's.
		Sweated labour itself was seen as beyond legislative intervention because of its location in the 'private sphere'.
		Kingsley dramatically described the way that sweating could spread contagion throughout society as diseases such as tuberculosis were passed to consumers through the products of sweated labour.
	www.open.ac.uk /Arts/history/booth-centre/noframes/02-report.htm (1666 words)

	Guardian \| Cheap labour, ruined lives
		Incorporating global labour standards into WTO agreements is likely to get short shrift from the new Bush administration, which is not exactly friendly to unions.
		But while official American enthusiasm for labour standards has waned, consumer and student protest, particularly at the use of sweated labour by sportswear manufacturers, has been growing.
		The National Labour Committee, a New York human rights group, which has brought a court case on behalf of Nicaraguan workers sacked by the Chentex jeans plant, agrees that boycotts are almost always counter-productive.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4137024-103674,00.html (768 words)

	wages - Australia, labor markets
		Writing in 1375 John Gower, a country gentleman, lamented: "Labour is now at so high a price that he who will order his business aright, must pay five or six shillings now for what cost two in former times...the poor and small folk...demand to be better fed than their masters".
		It is that point at which the supply of a particular type of labour intersects the demand curve for that labour.
		When regulations or union interference prevents capital and labour from being employed in their most valued combinations a suboptimal situation is created and capital and labour are prevented from being allocated to their most valued ends.
	www.brookesnews.com /042911-wages.html (1116 words)

	Spectrezine Europe's Pay Attack by Brian Denny
		As a result, migrant labour has been rapidly moving west, while east European countries are experiencing population falls and an inevitable brain drain.
		In the three western states, meanwhile, wages have been dragged downwards in a process known as "social dumping," as cheap foreign labour replaces the indigenous workforce and trade union bargaining power is severely weakened.
		Laval argued that this action was not in compliance with EU law and brought the case to the Swedish labour court, which decided to ask for a preliminary ruling by the ardently eurofederalist European Court of Justice.
	www.spectrezine.org /europe/Denny5.htm (1147 words)

	UK: Never had it so good?
		New Labour's pathetic trade and industry secretary, Patricia Hewitt, is right for once when she says that "modern manufacturing is central to our future as leading knowledge-based driven economy." The problem is that British capitalists don't agree.
		Indeed, whereas inequality (the share of income going to the top 10% versus that going to the bottom 10% of income-earners) rocketed under Thatcher's Tories in the 1980s (the top 20% of income earners saw their incomes rise 30 times faster than the bottom 20%!), it was actually reduced a little under Major's government.
		Thanks to destruction of council housing by the Tories and New Labour, there is no decent public housing to live in and rents in the private sector have rocketed.
	www.marxist.com /british-economy-rosy-picture200502.htm (1797 words)

	History
		Sweating Commission reported that there was no sweated labour in New Zealand but that women and child workers were exploited.
		Number two in the Department was James Mackay, previously an organiser with the Knights of Labour, and John Lomas who had led the Miners Union during the Maritime strike.
		Employers and Government saw this as a great opportunity to crush the "Red Feds." The main weapons used were the registration of scab unions, enrolling farmers as special constables and scab labour, and the use of police and armed forces to protect the scabs.
	www.awunz.org.nz /history.htm (3777 words)

	Cicely Corbett Corbett
		At the time sweated labour was defined as "(1) working long hours, (2) for low wages, (3) under insanitary conditions".
		Sweated labour may be defined as (1) working long hours, (2) for low wages, (3) under insanitary conditions.
		The chief difficulty is combating this evil abuse is that nearly all sweated work is done in the homes of the workers.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Wfisher.htm (1241 words)

	Mao's promised land ends in sweated labour \| International \| The Observer
		China is a labour buyer's market, with an estimated 94 million migrant labourers.
		Lured by cheap, unregulated labour, foreign investment has flooded into China while domestic entrepreneurs are ramping up production at such a pace that the government fears the economy will overheat.
		He was laid off in 1996, when his state-run paper factory was privatised, migrant labourers replacing the old workforce.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,1212576,00.html (1149 words)

	Asian Labour Update - Home Editorial
		AMRC has advocated OSH for over 20 years, particularly in connection with the Toy Campaign which began shortly after factory fires in Thailand (Kader) and China (Zhili) needlessly killed hundreds of workers in 1993; many more hundreds are maimed terribly for life.
		We target toy factories for lacking OHS standards simply because the issue of toys appeals to consumers who do not want their children's gifts made by sweated labour.
		Take the case of RCA (see related article), Taiwan's Council of Labour Affairs carried out several investigations but failed to conclude that workers?ailments are occupational diseases, despite the Environmental Department’s conclusions of the increased (several dozen times higher than normal) cancer risk faced by residents near the former RCA plant.
	www.amrc.org.hk /alu.htm (633 words)

	Labour Bureau Government of India
		7.3.2 The Labour Inspectors visited and inspected factories and private dwellings of the Contractors to see whether the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 and the Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966 were being complied with or not.
		The information pertaining to the inspection procedure; the number of inspections made in the establishments covered; the difficulties faced in the enforcement of the Act, and suggestions for improving the level of compliance with the provisions of the Act, was also collected during the course of Studies.
		The power of registration, which at present is vested in the Assistant Labour Commissioner, should be accompanied by an enabling provision of cancellation or withdrawal of the requisite licenses in case of non-compliance with the provisions of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948.
	labourbureau.nic.in /MW3ch7.htm (2649 words)

	Heath backs key Labour strategies
		Sir Edward said he did not know what Labour's plans were in detail, but confirmed on the BBC's Breakfast with Frost programme that he backed a Scottish assembly.
		Labour seized on his words, which John Prescott, the party's deputy leader, said had "demolished his own party's negative election campaign".
		Sir Edward said that the purpose of the minimum wage was to avoid sweated labour, "and quite rightly so".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/02/24/nted24.html (502 words)

	an ethnography of global labour migration
		While tens of thousands of migrant workers are exchanging their sweated labour for meagre wages in the 3-D jobs
		in Britain's food-processing, electronic manufacturing, catering, cleaning and hospitality industries outside any mechanism of labour protection, Britain today is still declining to at least ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families in effect since last year.
		In the post-Morecambe debate on migration and demand for regularizing gangmasters, policing and immigration raids are seen as the quick cure for migrant labour exploitation.
	www.palgrave-journals.com /fr/journal/v77/n1/abs/9400178a.html (249 words)

	Focus on Cornwall
		The last mine, South Crofty near Redruth, had been struggling in the face of undercutting by Thai and Indonesian tin mines, which enjoy the advantage of cheap sweated labour and a total indifference to the environmental ruin caused by their ruthless strip-mining techniques.
		Three years ago the mine was only saved from closing by 1,500 local Cornish people digging into their own pockets to invest a minimum of £200 each in the mine.
		But this extra is dwarfed by the extra those British consumers have to pay in taxes to finance the enormous Social Security costs of keeping millions of their fellow Britons on the dole, or on useless job-creation schemes or herded into seats of further education so as to massage the "official" unemployment figures.
	members.tripod.com /british-nation/cornwall.htm (1108 words)

	Network of Oxford Women for Justice and Peace. International Women's Festival 2005
		Summaries of talks given at NOW's one day forum on Sweated Labour on March 12 are gradually being added to the website.
		Sweated Labour: Women workers in the garment trade, a one-day forum on Saturday 12 March.
		Poster for 'Sweated Labour: Women Workers in the Garment Trade'
	home.freeuk.net /nowpeace/iwf2005.htm (367 words)

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		After the First World War Cicely Corbett Fisher was active in the Labour Party and the Women's International League.
		Cicely Corbett Fisher, a representative of the Women’s Industrial Council, gave a talk on sweated labour at East Grinstead in May 1912.
		In March, 1918, The East Grinstead Observer reported a speech made by Selina Cooper at the local branch of the Women’s Citizen Association.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SUfisher.htm (560 words)

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