Introduction to TNI’s State of Power 2013

Transnational Institute - TNI

Susan George provides an introduction to TNI’s State of Power 2013 report, exposing how the unprecedented concentration of corporate and elite power is at the root of our economic and ecological crisis. Towards the end of 2011, three young, very smart and tenacious●●●

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The Flex Syndrome

I. Schipper, K. Racz and Z. Perényi, SOMO and Association of Responsible Consumers

Working conditions in the Hungarian electronics sector Low-cost electronics production facilities have been established in Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Estonia) to supply the European market. Although working conditions within electronics manufacturing companies in South-East●●●

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Profiting from Injustice

Pia Eberhardt (CEO) and Cecilia Olivet (TNI)

Investment arbitration cases are brought by foreign investors against governments following alleged breaches of international investment agreements. Emblematic cases include tobacco giant Philip Morris suing Uruguay and Australia over health warnings on cigarette packets; and Swedish energy multinational Vattenfall seeking●●●

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