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Push to curb activists may add to sweatshop workers’ struggle

Push to curb activists may add to sweatshop workers’ struggle [First published by The Conversation, this article was co-authored with Mark Chou and Tezcan Gumus.] In late 2012, at least 117 workers died in a garment factory fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Kalpona Akter, a union activist from Dhaka, and Sumi Abedin, a survivor of the fire, retold their […]

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Shorten’s plan to lower the voting age could help increase political engagement

Shorten’s plan to lower the voting age could help increase political engagement [This news article first appears in The Conversation. It was co-authored with Mark Chou and Catherine Hartung. It proved inspiration for the book the three of us wrote with Lesley Pruitt, Young People, Citizenship and Political Participation: Combating Civic Deficit? (<- for the […]

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