All Posts Tagged With: "immigrant workers"
The Mt. Olive Pickle Boycott: Misidentifying the Enemy
Yellow and green jars of Mt. Olive Pickles are a familiar site in grocery stores throughout the southeast and beyond. As the second-best selling brand of shelf-stable pickles in the United States, Mt. Olive Pickle is especially prominent in its home state of North Carolina, the source of one-third of the 120 million pounds of [...]
1May2005 | William E. Pike | 2 comments | ContinuedTwisting Economics Against Immigrants
P. Gardner Goldsmith is an independent journalist and screenwriter in New Hampshire. On January 7 President Bush announced what appeared to be a sweeping plan to grant de-facto amnesty to millions of illegal aliens working in the United States. In fact, it was little more than a long-term worker-visa program that barely increased the ability [...]
1Sep2004 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | ContinuedSweatshops: Look for the INS Label
The nineteenth-century phenomenon of sweatshops is re-emerging as an important 21st-century issue for American labor and business. For example, the United Students Against Sweatshops has called on its 180 campus affiliates to organize and force universities to deal only with manufacturers who abide by fair labor practices. In February, students from the University of Pennsylvania [...]
1Jul2000 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedWe Should Welcome Immigrant Workers
The people who are daily landing here are not paupers, if the capacity and disposition to labour may exempt a man from that appellation. They are, for the most part, the sons and daughters of useful toil. They are men and women of hardy frames, accustomed to earn their living by the sweat of their [...]
1Nov1996 | William Leggett | 0 comments | Continued-
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