First we have Wal-Mart promoting diversity and now conservatives giving unions some due. The item in question is a post, “Do Unions Increase Productivity?” on the Economist’s Free Exchange, which is generally fairly right-wing in orientation (although I’m sure they’d describe themselves as free marketeers). This post in turn was engendered by a post on […]
Read more...Those of us familiar with Wal-Mart’s ways (meaning most of America) find the company’s new social responsibilty push perplexing. What do you make of a company that tries to be more environmentally responsible, and now is promoting diversity, yet has a heinous record as far as its rank-and-file workers are concerned? Answer: In both cases, […]
Read more...Below we have an extended except from “The Road to Happiness” by Derek Draper in The Guardian’s online commentary section. I find it intriguing that the question of social wellbeing has come to the point of being worthy of consideration in the House of Commons. Americans are stereotyped as touchy-feely and navel-gazing, but the Brits […]
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