The use of sweatshop labor in the apparel industry is not just a U.S. thing and it doesn't just take place in Bangladesh. Rather, it's a worldwide phenomenon that needs.
Above: Receiver of almost endless government benefits The Massachusetts House passed an amendment last week ordering the state welfare office to conduct a study about using biometrics in order to.
On June 1, 1906, copper miners in the city of Cananea, Sonora, a few miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, went on strike against the American companies dominating the mines.
So I'm at the Fighting Inequality conference in DC, which is mostly a labor history conference. I see a paper by a young scholar you many know named Steven Attewell.
1200 dead workers building World Cup projects in Qatar so far. This compares to just a handful of workers dying for other major sporting events in recent years, even in.
Some sage advice to rural people visiting Chicago, 1888
With leadership like this, it's hard to believe the American labor movement is in decline: Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved.
Bored journalists desperate to create horse-race stories for the 2016 elections can pretend that Republicans could woo Latinos in sizable numbers. We see stories like this pretty much every cycle.
