----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Darryl and Natalia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Karen Watters Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Selma Singer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fw: Bigger Than Watergate!
Harry quotes Natalia about third world workers > NATALIA: "Indonesian and Asian workers, including children, who work for > Nike earn 40 pence for every L100 sold of product. Some locations in those > countries get as little as 72 pence a day, shifts 24 hours or longer, to > work Nike, Adidas, Puma, Reebok, and live in disease-infested slums for the > privilege. In N. India, children hand stitch Mitre footballs for 14 pence > per ball." And then Harry asks > > HARRY: Why do they accept such terrible conditions All they need do is say > "A pox on you" and work for better wages elsewhere. > Selma asks Harry, are you truly ignorant of the fact that these people are generally starving and without any resources whatsoever with which to move or get any other work? How is it that you don't understand that the corporations take advantage of that? I am so confused by the kind of question you asked above. The alternative for these people is to starve to death. That is the excuse these corporations use to say that they are really 'helping them' to 'raise their standard of living'. How is it that you do not know that? Selma _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
