The faces behind the numbers
Are there now more jobs or fewer jobs? Are they better jobs than could be found before, or worse? Al-Ahram Weekly investigates the human aspect of statistics on the labour market

Liberalising labour
Gamal Essam El-Din examines the new Unified Labour Code designed to meet the requirements of the privatisation programme

The price paid by the poor
Fatemah Farag explores the social costs of restructuring

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