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Globalisation and low wages – are both reaching their limits?

In a talk given at the University of Southampton, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett heralded the return of Pot Noodle manufacture to Britain as a symptom of the slow-down of globalised production. Bennett claimed that, despite neo-liberal optimism, globalisation is “hitting the buffers” – the increase of wages and workers’ rights in developing countries, the […]