Labour stripped down to bare essentials

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

June 2010 EDITORIAL
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A cover on migrant workers raises a lot more questions than we can hope to answer in a monthly magazine. But it is a worthy attempt nonetheless. We really need to discuss the issue more openly.We are after all dealing with a human phenomenon, and the last time I looked, humans are more than mere economic beings.The basic issue – given how little we can immediately do to alter global economic structures – is that of dignity. When conditions of...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.


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