The notorious sweatshops of the age of Big Business (the late 19th and early 20th centuries) virtually disappeared after World War II because of increased government regulation of monopolies and the rise of trade unions. ... The popularity of the "free" market following the fall of Communism and a rise in anti-union sentiment, coupled with government programs (like NAFTA and GATT) designed to encourage free trade, have hastened the globalization process. Large corporations are now free to seek out low-wage havens: impoverished countries where corporations benefit from oppressive dictatorial re...

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The concept of the sovereign state is often described as one that is free and independent. ... Internal sovereignty is based on the principle that each state free to practice its rights without outside interference. ... The state is free to do everything within its territory and there is no other political entity or organ superior to the state. ... With the growth of trade and the manufacturing classes, and the introduction of royal taxes, power of the Western Europe became increasingly centralized in the monarchies (Britannica, p. 381). ...

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For example, some of these laws include: The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) 2001, The National Protection Act (Cwlth) 2009, Insurance Contracts Act 1984, Superannuation (Resolution of Complaints) Act 1993, Life Insurance Act 1995, Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997, Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act 2010, The Future of Financial Advice Legislation (FoFA), to name a few. ... As a consumer or investor , you can access free, independent information about money matters through ASIC's consumer website at http://www.asic.gov.au/ . ... The Australian Competition...

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An example "Code 203: If a free-born man strike the body of another free man or equal rank, he shall pay one gold mina. Code 204: If a freed man strike the body of another freed man, he shall pay ten shekels in money. Code 205: if a freed man strike the body of a freed man, his ear shall be cut off." ... There were also laws governing the rights of slaves "Code 175: If a state slave or the slave of a freed man marry the daughter of a free man, and children are born, the master of the slave shall have no right to enslave the children of the free." ... "The Bible outlawed kidnappi...

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That is why he refuses to comply with Massachusetts's civil authority because he thinks everyone should be free. ... He says, There are thousand who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets and say that they know what to do, and do nothing; who even postpone the question of freedom to the question of free trade . ... The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her free and less desponding spirits ...

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This was the period known in Japanese history as the Meiji Restoration; after centuries of military governments which had followed a policy of enforced isolation from the outside world a revolution led to the re-establishment of imperial rule and the opening up of the country to overseas trade and technology. ... The successful example would be Hong Kong, which was originally controlled by the Great Britain, It used all Western Science to make it like Western city, however it has keeped Chinese tradions such as Chinese New Year. ... On the educational side, Fukuzawa believed that every man cou...

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The Code enables historians to clearly see the existence and distinction between three classes of society; free men - the nobility, known as awelu, villeins (serfs bound to the land), and slaves. ... For example, laws 196-205, describe if a man puts out the eye of another free man, the same shall happen to him (an eye for an eye), however, if a man, "puts out the eye of a villein", the compensation will only be money. ... It also indicates that the land was most valuable, that the agriculture allowed for trading, as there was no wood, no precious stones and no minerals in the area, from the la...

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