Al-Ahram Weekly

As workers in this country and around the world observe May Day, Al-Ahram Weekly considers two crucial issues of labour in Egypt

Dealing with the dole
Recent efforts to combat unemployment in Egypt have met with little success. Should new strategies be devised? Gihan Shahine samples the views of ILO officials

A family affair?
The onset of summer heralds the season of intensive agricultural child labour. Soha Abdelaty cracks open a debate that drowns the lives of real children in the politics of human rights

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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 3 - 9 May 2001 Issue No.532
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