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...Health Service four and a half million pounds in cash. They send thousands of people away on holiday. They do an immense amount of work. And I mean that’s just one organisation. If you look at what two hundred and forty thousand of these organisations turning over what fifteen billion a year, somebody’s estimate of the value of the work they do if you had to pay for...

...health services in the UK are different from the institutions that contribute to the reduction of poverty in the Indian sub-continent, which in turn are different from the institutions designed to create liberal capitalism in eastern Europe, or those set up to address problems related to HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and so on. It is worth noting, though, that such is the...

...health throughout his life and was already seriously ill (with an incurable form of tuberculosis) when he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. The cultural and political impact of Nineteen Eighty-Four was immediate. It was published in June 1949 – against the backdrop of the beginning of the Cold War and amid increasing anti-communist hysteria on both sides of the...

...health at work, providing social protection for workers, and fighting discrimination in the workplace. The ILO has adopted several conventions (all open for signature and ratification by state parties) addressing forced and exploitative labour: International Labour Organisation Forced Labour Convention 1930 (No 29) Defined forced labour as ‘all work or service which is...