benefits -- its workers average less than $18,000 a year"
scroll for news articles
"Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Victims of human trafficking are young children, teenagers, men and women. Approximately 800,000 to 900,000 victims annually are trafficked across international borders world wide, and between 18,000 and 20,000 of those victims are trafficked into the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of State. Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. After drug dealing, trafficking of humans is tied with arms dealing as the second largest criminal industry in the world, and is the fastest growing." http://www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/about/index.html
The Center for Law and Social Responsibility at New England School of Law - Sexual Violence Legal News Online http://www.nesl.edu/csr/svnews/
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/17/arts/17WALM.html?pagewanted=print&position=
Wal-Mart, a Nation Unto Itself
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
New York Times April 17, 2004
ANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 13 -- We already know that
Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer. (If it were an
independent nation, it would be China's eighth-largest
trading partner.) We also know that it is maniacal
about low prices. (Some economists say it has
single-handedly cut inflation by 1 percent in recent
years, saving consumers billions of dollars annually.)
We know that its labor practices have come under
attack. (It charges its workers so much for health
insurance that about one-third of them do not have it.)....
Wal-Mart has created a very different model from
General Motors, he added, noting that G.M. helped build
the world's most affluent middle class by paying wagesfar above the average and by providing generous health
and pension plans. Mr. Lichtenstein said G.M.'s wage
pattern spurred other companies to raise compensation
levels, while Wal-Mart's relatively low wages and
benefits -- its workers average less than $18,000 a year
-- were doing just the opposite.
The company's pay scale and hard-nosed labor practices,
said Simon Head, a fellow at the Century Foundation and
author of "The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in
the Digital Age" (Oxford University Press, 2003) mean
that "Wal-Mart is certainly a template of 21st-century
capitalism, but a capitalism that increasingly
resembles a capitalism of 100 years ago." He added, "It
combines the extremely dynamic use of technology with a
very authoritarian and ruthless managerial culture."
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