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IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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MARKETPLACE (Radio & Website)

WORKING [profiles of single workers in the global economy]
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/

Working. It's what most of us do for half our waking lives. It's how we feed and clothe ourselves and how we support our families. It shapes our sense of who we are, and of where we fit in the scheme of things.
Working is also what connects us. Almost everything around us is the product of human labor­much of it performed in faraway places, by people we will never meet.
Each month, WORKING brings us into the life of a single worker in the global economy. Intimate profiles of real people with real families, real struggles, real dreams, and real jobs.


FIDELE MUSAFIRI          MINER FROM CONGO                 $3-3.50/kg of ore
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/miner.html

Your cell phone or your laptop wouldn't work without a mineral called coltan. The Democratic Republic of Congo has about 80 percent of the world's
coltan reserves, and that has spawned a corrupt and violent industry. Military factions vie for control of the mines, earning millions of dollars
while the miners themselves barely scrape by. One of those miners is Fidele Musafiri, a small man with a hammer, a spike, and a dream of striking it
rich.


Past Stories include --

Agus Laodi      PIRATE           $0-$2,000/operation
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/pirate.html

Agus Laodi could barely feed his family with his earnings as a cocoa farmer. So eight years ago, with his wife's blessing, he left his Indonesian village to seek his fortune as a pirate. Now he lives in on an island in the Strait of Malacca, slipping out in the dead of night to rob cargo ships with a machete. Sound romantic? Think again.


* Samanta                         Sex Worker
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/samanta.html


   * Whyman Richards             Iceberg Wrangler
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/iceberg.html >


   * Mohmen                       Tannery Worker
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/mohmen.html >
   listen to full story


   * Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen     Movie Director
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/lancelot.html >


   * Hussein Ralib Esfandiari   Dhow Captain    $1500-3000/month         Dubai, United Arab Emirates
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/dhow.html>


   * Wahid Khan Habibula        Cargo Agent              $800/month                Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/khan.html>


   * Chloé Doutre-Roussel       Chocolate Taster        $2,180/day                Paris, France
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/chloe.html>


   * Gordana Jankuloska         Cabinet Minister        $1,400/month              Macedonia
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/gordana.html >


   * Marco Moreno Gonzales      Textile Worker  $840/month                Lima, Peru
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/marco.html>


   * Sam Ahmedu                  NBA Scout                $1,458/month              Lagos, Nigeria
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/nbascout.html >
  

   * Romulo Greham               Lobster Diver            $2.64/lobster lb                  Mosquito Coast, Honduras
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/lobsterdiving.html >


   * Blair Ghent                 Industrial Mechanic     $6,000/month              Alberta, Canada
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/oilsands.html >


   *Chanta Nguon                 CEO                       $600/month                Cambodia        
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/chanta.html >


   * Laowang                      Express Mail Driver     $238/month                China
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/wang.html>


   * Diana Ivanova Dimova       Pop Singer               $10/night                 Bulgaria
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/dayana.html >


   * Tarek Haidar Eskandar      Fixer                     $20-75/day                Lebanon
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/tarek.html>
 

   * Pedro Córdova               Metal Worker             $540/month                La Oroya, Peru
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/pedrocordova.html >


   *Valdet Dule                  Minesweeper              $30/day                   Kosovo-Albania Border
< http://marketplace.publicradio.org/segments/working/valdetdule.html >
 

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Stuart Basefsky                   
Director, IWS News Bureau                
Institute for Workplace Studies 
Cornell/ILR School                        
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor             
New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
Telephone: (607) 255-2703                
Fax: (607) 255-9641                       
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu                  
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