For women, the additional years of schooling were not associated with an upgrading of their position in the labour market, potentially creating a job-education mismatch detrimental for mental health.37 The discrepancy between the expectations created by the reform and the actual long-term benefits..…
Human trafficking, defined in the report as 'the use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit human beings through forced labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual exploitation,' has become a $150 billion industry, trafficking over 40 million people, of whom 30 million are female and 10 million are children,..…
The country ranks low in most measures of women’s empowerment, including formal labour-force participation, assets owned, and nutrition. ..…
Integrity Initiative to shape domestic opinion — and to smear political opponents of Tory government, including the leader of Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn... ..…
Under pressure from wider bourgeois politics, the influence of the Labour left, Communist Party and of some in the unions, the revolutionary left flipped over from internationalist position to opposition to EEC in the summer of 1971. ... FOR virtually the whole of business, Tory party, the right..…
According to economist Dermot McAleese, in the years prior to The Economist’s 1988 diagnosis, Ireland had been plagued by “High taxes, low confidence, high labour costs, excessive regulation and anti-competitive practices.” ..…
The anti-labour policies of Modi government have affected more and more workers recent years and the illusion of 'progress has lost its shine. ..…
‘The Conservatives’ death by 1,000 cuts approach won’t work, ambushes by minority parties like the DUP prolong the agony, a Labour government would continue the cruelly slow demise of politics by trying to negotiate a new Brexit deal and the Lib Dems are led by Vince Cable,’ she observed. ..…
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