Stop the race to the bottom
How can you be too expensive when you make less than $1.50 an hour?Anita Roddick | November 2003 issue Selina lives and works in the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh. She works a 13 to 14 hour daily shift. During the busy season, she works a gruelling nineteen-and-a-half hour shift every Read More...
Crisis? What crisis?
The recession is causing tension in the job market and uncertainty in many families. But according to Jurriaan Kamp there is a deeper crisis lurking behind the current malaise: the modern economic system is creating fewer and fewer jobs that people find gratifying.Jurriaan Kamp | October 2003 Read More...
Stars on the rise
Europe is a philosophy to be reckoned with. Luke Disney | October 2003 issue ‘Where is the world going: toward perpetuation of rule by power, or instead evolution to communities of consent?’ Graham Fuller, former vice-chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, put a fine point on Read More...
Just sue it
Companies should brace themselves for human rights claims from abroad.Elbrich Fennema | October 2003 issue A-brands watch your backs! An increasing number of protest groups are using the Internet as a public podium to raise the alarm on corporate abuses, especially since the publication of Naomi Read More...
'A distant voice from another dimension is crying out for recognition'
Nature and spirituality have fallen victim to our blind faith in technology and rationalism. A critical explanation of how we have been alienated from architecture, agriculture, medicine and education. Prins Charles | October 2003 issue I find I am often accused of living in the past, or of wanting Read More...
Growth? What growth?
'The gross domestic product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither of our compassion nor our devotion to country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.' -- Robert KennedyJurriaan Kamp | October 2003 issue Economic Read More...
'I encourage people to go on holiday'
ING Chairman Ewald Kist doesn't want you to be a workaholic. Jurriaan Kamp | October 2003 issue He employs 115.000 people worldwide. His company is in the middle of an intensely competitive battle within the international financial world. You would think that Ewald Kist could use every hour his Read More...
Government Inc.
New WTO negotiations, but the harmonisation of national regulations deals a blow to democracy. Marco Visscher | August 2003 issue When fresh World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations start in mid-September in Cancun Mexico they will include discussions on foreign investments. This could lead to a Read More...
Size six: The Western women's harem
Fatema Mernissi was born in a harem, but her female counterparts in the West suffer an even harsher fate. An eye-opening new perspective on gender roles and the male-domination of the multi-billion dollar fashion industry. Fatema Mernissi | August 2003 issue ‘I was born in a harem.’ That Read More...
Argument 2: Economic impulse
The advent of the hydrogen car could prompt a wave of automobile sales comparable to the rapid spread of the mobile telephone. This innovation, which is associated with an important technological breakthrough, will provide an economic impulse. | August 2003 issue Much more inspiring than Read More...