Author Archive | Intan Suwandi

Outsourcing exploitation: global labor-value chains

Through their control over supply chains, multinationals based in the global north exploit workers in the global south.

“Down with the Rebels Against the Bill of Sale!”: Guy Endore’s radical reimagining of Haiti and revolution Joseph G. Ramsey
The American occupation of Haiti lasted from 1915–34. The U.S. subjected Haitians to the hated forced labor system of the corvée, seized control over Haitian finance, and rewrote the Haitian Constitution at gunpoint, enabling foreign companies to acquire land in the country. The distorting and oppressive impacts of the U.S. occupation have been felt in Haitian society ever since.
A tale of corruption by the United Auto Workers and the Big Three American automakers Thomas Adams
What follows is a somewhat complex tale of what happens when a labor union, structured to be unaccountable to the rank-and-file membership, embraces a system of labor-management cooperation rather than a class-conscious understanding that workers and their employers are adversaries with fundamentally opposed goals and desires.