The recent spate of garment-factory disasters in Bangladesh spotlights the poor working conditions in that country.
Nearly 20 workers have jumped to their deaths at Foxconn factories because of poor working conditions.
Poor working conditions, rudimentary surveillance and communications equipment, inadequate forensic science laboratories and outdated weaponry are making matters worse.
But there has been anti-Chinese unrest and rioting among Zambian copper workers over low pay, poor working conditions and alleged exploitation.
Two mid-sized dams are being built there now, constantly under legal pressure and labor disputes over unfair pay and poor working conditions.
"I didn't know anything about independent trade unions, but I felt that there was injustice for the poor working class, " he says.
Police say the miners had been protesting against poor working conditions at the Collum mine on Friday when the managers opened fire at random.
In particular, it has mobilised support among the poor working class in Ireland's urban areas, who might otherwise back the prime minister's party, Fianna Fail.
Poor working capital management causes many early-stage companies to fail.
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He added that incidents involving structural building issues such as the last two factory accidents were "not common" in Cambodia, despite worries about poor working conditions in the country.
As part of the government's emphasis on work, the working families tax credit, to be introduced in October, and the children's tax credit, due in 2001, will help poor working parents.
With the change of political leadership in 2003 and many highly publicised reports about poor working conditions, there has been a shift in emphasis in China, and a corresponding shift in the union.
Over the past three decades, they came in waves, working long hours in sweatshops, construction sites and assembly plants, enduring poor working conditions in order to save a little cash to remit home.
There have been 24 suicides at France Telecom, Europe's third-largest telecoms company, since the beginning of 2008 and 13 attempted suicides, according to labor unions, who blame restructuring and poor working conditions for creating a climate of stress.
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Conceptualize, design and formulate programmes that contribute to the creation of inclusive learning environments responsive to diverse learning needs, particularly for a disadvantaged and marginalized population in the Arab region, especially children with special needs, street and poor working children, refugees, drop-outs etc.
However, the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of these programmes has been undermined by a lack of adequate resources, an acute shortage of trained manpower, a severe lack of educational and other instructional materials, a shortage of learning spaces and insufficient motivation for teachers and literacy facilitators due to poor working conditions.
UNESCO: Integrated Intergenerational Literacy Project (IILP)
"The governor just doesn't seem willing to bring his 'A game' to the minimum wage issue, " said Mark Dunlea of the Hunger Action Network, an advocate for the poor and working poor.
For the vast majority of Americans, including the poor and the working poor, their real income has been going down over the last several years.
The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia are starving.
The trader, 48, had grown up poor, working since age 11 and putting himself through college.
That did include poor and working class whites who wanted to be brought in.
He picked images of Americans rich and poor, working and idle, northern, southern and western.
That is why economic growth, not redistribution, most benefits the poor, working people, and the middle class.
Meanwhile, those branches of the state that actually do help the poor and working class should be maintained.
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One possible function for a modern WPA would be to go to neighborhoods--particularly poor and working class ones--and insulate houses.
Black Afro-Caribbean boys are among the lowest achievers in England's education system, alongside poor white working class boys, according to official statistics.
Hispanics are more likely to identify with the poor and working class.
But work has not proved to be a route out of poverty for everyone, partly because very few of the poor are working full-time.
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The slick new services often don't connect with each other and older public transport systems, leaving poor and working-class people struggling to get to work.
As a whole, this plan will help poor and working Americans pull themselves into the middle class in a way we haven't seen in nearly 50 years.
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