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The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture.
The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.
Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.
The late author of Nickel and Dimed played a major role in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.
And what today’s organizers can learn from them.
How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.
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