Sonntag 16. of September 2007

World Cup 2010: Privatizing Security in South Africa (G4S)

In April 2007 a global fact finding team from different unions went to South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique to find out about the employment practices of the global player "Group 4 Securicor (G4S)". The team interviewed G4S...
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World Cup 2010: Privatizing Security in South Africa (G4S)

Category: Security, welfare & workfare

Freitag 04. of August 2006

Volker Eick: Disciplining the Urban Poor

Private security companies (though not a new phenomenon) are mushrooming since the early 1990s all over Germany (and beyond). The withdrawal of state responsibilities for public services in general goes with the privatization of...
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Volker Eick: Disciplining the Urban Poor

Category: Presentations

Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006

Fred Seavey: Globalizing Labor in Response to a globalizes securitz industry

We are currently working on a very limited computer basis (Debian Live System with US Keyboard). So this is just a test to announce that the first paper is in: Fred Seavey on the organizing of security guards in Hamburg, Germany
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Fred Seavey: Globalizing Labor in Response to a globalizes securitz industry

Category: Abstracts & Papers