The Multinational Monitor
 
April 1983 - Volume 4 - Number 4
 
Atari Moving Blue Collar Jobs to Asia 

C O N T E N T S

Features

Atari Moves to Asia
- by Tim Shorrock
The company's transfer of blue collar jobs to Asia shocked advocates of high tech and brought charges of union busting.

Down in Silicon Valley
- by Lenny Siegel
Many view it as the promised land. But the silicon wafer is not manna from heaven.

Get'Em While They're Down
- by Andy Feeney
Michigan corporations are using the state's hard times to loosen environmental regulations.

IMF and Chile: A Parting of Ways
- by Walden Bello and John Kelly
Monetarist policies have brought depression conditions to Chile - and bickering with the IMF

Commentary: Seeing the Forest and the Trees
- by Fred Miller
Environmentalists, labor and small businesses can join forces to make giant timber companies more responsive to the Pacific Northwest's needs

News Monitor

Banking on Apartheid - An Expanding Business
- by Carole Collins

Conference Targets Limping Nuclear Industry
- by Jeff Bentoff

1982 Plant Closures Affect 1.2 Million Workers
- results of BNA study

Critics Hit Grain Bill Giveaway to Corporations
- by Jeff Bentoff

Pennwalt - Under Pressure - Cleans Up Mercury Contamination
- by David Kowalewski

Non-Aligned Nations Moderate Calls for New Economic Order
- by Josh Martin

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