Download PDF by Corinne Goria: Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy (Voice of

By Corinne Goria

ISBN-10: 1938073908

ISBN-13: 9781938073908

The women and men in Invisible Hands show the human rights abuses happening behind the curtain of the worldwide economic system. those narrators together with cell brands in China, copper miners in Zambia, garment staff in Bangladesh, and farmers all over the world show the key heritage of the issues we purchase, together with lives and groups devastated through low wages, environmental degradation, and political repression. Sweeping in scope and wealthy intimately, those tales seize the interconnectivity of each person suffering to help themselves and their households. Narrators comprise Kalpona, a number one Bangladeshi exertions organizer who led her first strike at 15; Han, who, as undefined, begun assembling circuit forums for a global electronics corporation dependent in Seoul; Albert, a copper miner in Zambia who, in the course of a salary protest, used to be shot through representatives of the Chinese-owned mining corporation that he labored for; and Sanjay, who grew up within the shadow of the Bhopal chemical catastrophe, one of many worst commercial injuries in history.

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