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The corporate community understands the need for rules. Indeed, it argues for regulation to protect intellectual property, physical property rights, and contract law. So why does it oppose global regulation to protect people and the environment?

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You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever.

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If you put stimulus into an economy, you know there is a time lag in terms of depending where you invest it. If it's family transfers, it might be quick. If it's infrastructure, it might be two, three, five years.

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There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration.

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In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.

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Collective bargaining, and the fundamental human right, freedom of association, is seen as an anathema to American business, and people just - it doesn't seem to register that there's no universal social safety net that people can touch.

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You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world.

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Many women drop out of the work force altogether, which holds back our economy with a loss of skills and personnel.

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I've had an enormously privileged working life.

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There's not much more of an honour - to work for, and with, working people.

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Activist

Born: December 12th, 1954

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