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Why children work: Jeremy Seabrook visits young garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh and finds clear links between growing landlessness, the collapse of rural economies and the roots of child labour.	Essay	Sep 1, 2009	1876
Concrete dreams: the urbanization of India is in full swing. But, argues Jeremy Seabrook, it relies on an imaginery latitude below the poverty line, a Tropic of indigence, where people 'dwell' rather than 'reside'-and revenge is displacing redress.	Viewpoint essay	Jan 1, 2009	1727
Homeless in Delhi: Jeremy Seabrook meets the people who shelter in the 'rainshadow of wealth' in India's capital city.	Essay	May 1, 2008	1733
The Servant Problem.	Book review	Aug 1, 2006	264
Bingobabble: Jeremy Seabrook translates the exotic language of poverty spoken in a country rarely visited by its subjects.		Oct 1, 2005	680
The poverty of America: the disaster in New Orleans sheds new light on the nature of poverty in the rich world, according to Jeremy Seabrook.		Oct 1, 2005	1482
The bushfires of affluence: Jeremy Seabrook weighs the cost to just a few generations in Britain--and around the world--of being dazzled by consumerism.		Jun 1, 2005	1728
Insecure lives: for some, security is a healthy stock portfolio and life in a gate-guarded community. For others, it is a source of clean water and enough to eat. Jeremy Seabrook measures the distance and traces the connection.		Mar 1, 2005	1033
Interview with Pandurang Hegde.	Interview	Oct 1, 2004	867
In the shadow of the torturer: human rights are being violated in Bangladesh with scarcely a whisper from the West. Jeremy Seabrook argues that the country's history has combined with the methods of the 'war on terror' to produce a lethal cloud of concealment.		Aug 1, 2004	1630
Another coinage: if you love your family, go out and get a job--on the other side of the world. Jeremy Seabrook looks at what globalization is doing to intimate human bonds.		Jan 1, 2004	1700
Terror as religion: Jeremy Seabrook explores the rites and holy precepts of the world's newest religion--America.		Oct 1, 2003	1715
The voice of the majority: It speaks out of poverty and is rarely heard. (Essay).		Mar 1, 2002	1444
Unchaining captive hearts: Westerners are not used to looking in envy at the lot of Bangladeshi villagers. But we have a lot to learn from them about reclaiming and regenerating culture from the globalizing behemoths.		Jan 1, 2002	2001
It's what you do: most of the men who have sex with men in the South probably don't identify themselves as `gay' or `bisexual'.		Oct 1, 2000	1889
Migrant in the mirror: the discovery of a new slave trade in Europe and the fevered, racist debate that has followed it ...		Sep 1, 2000	1629
Weasel words: a dictionary (lexicons define words in politically and ethically neutral terms).		Mar 1, 1999	663
After the eclipse: revolution is out of fashion and organized labour has tumbled for the orgiastic imagery of consumerism ...		Jan 1, 1999	2116
Racketeers of illusion: ... the cultural cost of admission to the global marketplace.		Dec 1, 1998	1620
Reformasi or survival: ... the Indonesian eye of the global economic storm.		Dec 1, 1998	899
Of human bondage: most of us sell our bodies in some way or another. Jeremy Seabrook traces the global intricacies and extremes of that bondage.		Apr 1, 1998	1798
Curious mysticism: what we need is more materialism ...		Oct 1, 1997	2181
Story of a slum.	Editorial	May 1, 1997	575
The city, our stepmother: ten years in the life of a slum community: Jeremy Seabrook introduces us to the poor community in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) ...		May 1, 1997	2112
Fire, a death and the cooking pots: how Sanjay Gandhi Nagar came into being - and how it survived against all odds until the day police moved in --.		May 1, 1997	1785
Bare earth, fine hopes: relocation brings respite, but politicians are suddenly promising the earth --.		May 1, 1997	1090
City of dreams: Shravan Maishe talks about his life.		May 1, 1997	842
Home is where the heart is: as they become more settled, splits develop in the community - notably between those who have grown richer and those who have stayed poor --.		May 1, 1997	2404
Friendship and fracture: security and community (in Sanjay Gandhi Nagar) have their benefits, but they also mean excluding outsiders.		May 1, 1997	1451
Fake coke and broken coconuts: in a new slum area (Appapada) not two kilometers from Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, a new community is setting in.		May 1, 1997	782
World to be won: the left must dare to think the unthinkable.		Jan 1, 1997	1917