Another successful story was my experience organizing against sweatshops with the Notre Dame Progressive Student Alliance as part of the United Students Against Sweatshops network. We were adequately connected to the network to model our local campaign on those of other groups – and we won.
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ZNet |Activism | Online Activism 2.0: Movement Building - 0 views
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It is critical, in the context of sweatshops, petroleum corporations and so on, to concentrate movement strategies on the global level. In this case, the connections (or lack of connections) with international sweatshop organizations should be more explicit.
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Content Producer since: October 28, 2006 I am a student at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. I love sports and I love to write. I am a junior and I study management. Football is my favorite sport and I love Erin Andrews. Coffee in the morning and a donut at night.
Greg Mankiw's Blog: Goolsbee on the Business Cycle - 0 views
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Consider the evidence uncovered by Paul Oyer, a Stanford Business School economist, in his recent paper, "The Making of an Investment Banker: Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice and Lifetime Income" (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 12059, February 2006). Dr. Oyer tracked the careers of Stanford Business School graduates in the classes of 1960 to 1997.He found that the performance of the stock market in the two years the students were in business school played a major role in whether they took an investment banking job upon graduating and, because such jobs pay extremely well, upon the average salary of the class. That is no surprise. The startling thing about the data was his finding that the relative income differences among classes remained, even as much as 20 years later.
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path dependency of economy - and whole lives
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