queries

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

>
> Women like Carmelita Alonzo, who sewed clothes for the Gap and Liz
> Claiborne, had a two-hour commute home, and died after being denied time
> off for pneumonia, a common illness in these factories. As Klein says,
> people are now demanding to know why, if the big brands have so much power
> and influence over price and marketing, they do not also have the power to
> demand and enforce ethical labour standards from such suppliers...'
>
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > ... I would guess that if one looked hard enough one would find
> > Klein's point being made by someone in the 1890s.

Check out the section on Mary Ann Walkley in the first volume of DAS KAPITAL,
the chapter on the working day.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema