labor
Sarah Jaffe has an important piece up at Alternet exploring the realities of public sector workers in the Second Gilded Age: Beil told a story of guards at a women's.
On March 25, 1911, 146 workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City died when the building in which they worked caught on fire. One of the most.
I have a piece up at Alternet on restaurant labor, examining the exploitative nature of the $2.13 an hour tipped minimum wageand exploring some possibilities to even the playing field..
Jake Blumgart with an excellent discussion of why labor rights should be considered civil rights: It is for these reasons that Kahlenberg and Marvit argue that Title VII of the.
Josh Eidelson adds an important angle to the recent coverage of the exploitation of NCAA athletes by writers such as Taylor Branch and Joe Nocera. Eidelson explores the nascent attempts.
There's an effort to turn the site of the 1894 Pullman Strike into a national park site. You should support this. I have not yet discussed the Pullman Strike in.
The Republican war on labor is reaching a fevered pitch in Georgia, where the Constitution is being shredded in order to protect employers from inconvenient protestors. This effort is supported.
Josh Eidelson has an important piece at The Nation reminding us of the National Labor Relations Board's vital importance for workers, an especially important issue given its extremely tenuous lifeline.