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The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops producing the Kathie Lee Gifford line of clothing for Wal-Mart. . . . The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights. . . has been a leader in exposing sweatshops, mounting corporate campaigns, and fighting for the rights of vulnerable workers.

Fighting, Impact, Kernaghan, Lee, New York, Workers

Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest.

Institutions, Jobs, Public, Real, Responsibility, Value

The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good. . . . By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.

Children, Cultivated, Dream, Greater, Jobs, Poverty

The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.

Century, Corporations, Democratic, Government, Illusion, Mystique

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Citizens, Gilded, Government, Greed, Responsibility

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