Seoul, South Korea Na Hyowoo knew I would be interested in meeting some union organizers and representatives in order to get a better sense of the work here, so we went to the outskirts of downtown Seoul to meet with the Korean Federation of Private Service Workers’ Unions and their president, Kim, Hyung-Keun. I was feeling …
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The Shadow of Indian Conglomerates
Delhi, India The papers were full of the new of the latest purchases of the giant Tata operations that had moved a protected state steel monopoly into a multi-national steel giant and the largest steel combine in the world. More titillating than their movements into steel in middle of the United Kingdom was the recent announced …
India Social Forum
Delhi, India The India Social Forum is an off-shoot, a first cousin of sorts, of the annual World Social Forums that have been growing from their original roots in Porto Allegre, Brazil, to know embrace a world of social movement work. The ISF was the first outing for this enterprise in India, though the World Social …