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America’s Deadliest Job

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On August 28, 2013
I'm sure the timber industry is glad it retook its historically appropriate title America's most dangerous job. An excerpt from my book manuscript draft, part of which explores the history of worker safety in logging. Sadly, things aren't always so different today: On August 28,...

More Bangladesh

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On June 30, 2013
The problem with this article on the power that garment factory owners wield in Bangladeshi politics, making the prosecution of owners of factories where workers die almost impossible, is that it completely ignores the relationship between those factory owners and the multinational apparel companies that...

The Non-Union Workplace

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On June 15, 2013
Here's what happens when workplaces don't have unions. An employee of Sewon America, an auto parts supplier for Kia, allegedly died Wednesday, May 29, after working in extreme heat on the company’s “project weld line” in LaGrange, according to another Sewon employee who spoke with...
This is a story that won't get lasting attention because of the small number of dead workers, but following the death of 1127 garment workers in Bangladesh, we have another factory collapse in the apparel industry. The roof collapsed in a Cambodian shoe factory, killing...

Fire Codes

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On May 10, 2013

One thing about Texas is how strongly its residents buy into the whole mythologizing bullshit about how great it is. This is true even of a lot of lefty Texans,.

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