When it comes to improving working conditions in global supply chains, the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model has seen unparalleled success. Jasmine Owens* Ethical Consumer is pleased to announce that funding has been secured to explore WSR in UK supermarkets’ Spanish supply chains. In 2023 we published the […]
Europe
José Pais: Prostitutes and mothers in Bragança
A rich and sensitive sociological analysis of the intersections of sex and money, in the contexts of traditional family expectations and the conflicting desire for freedom in a rapidly changing world. Mothers on both sides of the conflict; male bonding and male secrecy. (The Prisma memoirs) Graham Douglas […]
The philosopher of the street, vagabond prophet
We feel an enormous emptiness when we lose a friend. An emptiness which fills with anguish, and overflows with anger when we discover in the empty spaces of our lives that the time we should have given to our lost friend has slipped away. José Machado Pais This […]
New immigration policies: a disturbing reality
The European Union Commission and the UK’s immigration policies, when viewed through a lens stripped of diplomatic niceties, reveal a disconcerting reality as the humanitarian aspect of immigration risks being neglected. Such policies exert significant influence on the socio-economic fabric of nations. Rola Zamzameh* Recent developments in the […]
Unprecedented pluri-national State emerges in Spain
Since the General Elections of July 13, the very close result between the right-wing and left-wing coalitions caused a 180-degree turn in the political landscape and, possibly, in its own historical trajectory, built after the death of the dictator Franco, by establishing Democracy and the approval of the Constitution of 1978.