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“Poor people have a right to eat well”: towards quality, locally grown food aid in France

23rd June 2021 Equal Times 0

On the shelves of the Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy branch of the national food bank network, Banque Alimentaire (Food Bank), located in a wholesale market in the eastern […]

Evicted in the midst of a pandemic: Belgium’s housing crisis

28th April 2021 Equal Times 0

Florence has been living in Brussels since 2009 and has spent the last three years in social housing in the municipality of Schaarbeek. A few […]

Caught between military occupation and unemployment, Palestinians continue to work in the Israeli economy without full labour rights

27th November 2020 Equal Times 0

It is four in the morning and heavy rain washes the deserted alleys of the village of Al Midiah, west of Ramallah. A white minibus […]

Janhavi Dave: “We need to empower home-based workers by investing in more co-operatives. Unity builds strength and resilience”

27th July 2020 Equal Times 0

South Asia is home to over 50 million home-based workers, most of whom are women. From agarbhatti incense stick rollers in India to piecework garment workers in Sri […]

How Kerala managed to flatten the coronavirus curve

29th May 2020 Equal Times 0

There are a number of countries that have earned plaudits internationally for saving hundreds of thousands of lives with their swift, effective and decisive responses […]

The Donetsk People’s Republic, a state under construction or a ghost state?

2nd March 2020 Equal Times 0

The huge administrative building gives a feeling of emptiness as you enter. Dressed in military fatigues, a soldier keeps the visitor’s register. “Passport!” he says […]

Can the European Union lead the world’s ecological transition?

29th January 2020 Equal Times 0

The European Union is in a green state of mind. Last December, the new president of the European Commission placed the fight against climate change […]

“Strikes have not died out in the 21st century, they are being transformed”

2nd May 2019 Equal Times 0

[This article was first published on May 1st, 2018.] At the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization) they are very busy […]

Two decades of labour flexibilisation in Mexico has left workers facing “drastic” precarity

5th February 2019 Equal Times 0

Artemis is now 60 years old and started working when she was a teenager. She has been in formal employment for 38 years, with a […]

Transformation or destruction: the uncertain future of work in the fourth industrial revolution

5th April 2018 Equal Times 0

Digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence are changing the way we produce, work and interact. In the fourth industrial revolution the principal player is technology, and […]

Cheap labour versus robots, who will sew the clothes of the future?

11th September 2017 Equal Times 0

The t-shirt you are going to buy next month is probably being made at this very moment. It could be that a woman of about […]

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