Category Archives: Learning

Reverse migration-Workers as “Rip Van Vinkle”

Posted on May 4, 2012 by prashant bhatt

Reverse migration is an issue which every worker living in Arab world faces in some way or the other. In our discussion on May Day, after reading out excerpts of Hay Market https://prashantbhatt.com/2012/05/01/the-eight-hour-day-remembering-hay-market-in-tripoli/ and the struggle for the 8 hour … Continue reading →

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The Eight Hour Day –Remembering Hay Market in Tripoli

Posted on May 1, 2012 by prashant bhatt

            Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will                                                                         Rallying slogan of the 8 hour working day                                                                         Movement of Chicago 1886. The first secular holiday of Libya under … Continue reading →

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Musings around Easter-Remembering St.Augustine of Hippo

Posted on April 29, 2012 by prashant bhatt

In no wise are the bodies themselves to be spurned. (…) For these pertain not to ornament or aid which is applied from without, but to the very nature of man. St.Augustine of Hippo 13th November 354 to 28th August … Continue reading →

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