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With more than 2 million migrant workers finding food processing jobs in rural America, their struggle to find adequate health care remains elusive.
A strike would shake up the auto industry, even though both the union’s ranks and the share of the US automotive market controlled by GM, Ford and Stellantis have been shrinking for decades.
The strike would have been the first for the parcel delivery giant since 1997.
Talks between the the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and company bosses have broken down. A supply chain expert explores what could happen next.
Reagan is the only union leader to serve as US President. Paradoxically, he was also one of the most aggressively anti-union presidents of the 20th century.
Some of the ways that streaming has transformed the industry are jeopardizing actors’ livelihoods.
Some of the biggest changes to child labor laws are in Iowa and Arkansas.
Changing workplace culture and the way jobs are designed can stave off depression, anxiety and burnout.
While Lewis Hine’s early-20th century photographs of working children compelled Congress to limit or ban child labor, the US Department of Labor is now under fire for failing to enforce these laws.
Three scholars who are writing a book about menopause and the law suggest ways to protect women experiencing it.
Young motivated employees are pushing the movement for union representation among US workforces. Is it time for management to get on board?
Barbara Lynch’s alleged bullying of her employees is only the latest in a string of high-profile chef scandals. Two scholars explore how this behavior became normalized in kitchens across the US.
The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
Ten years after the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, the garment industry’s deadliest disaster, reforms are incomplete. The opaqueness of today’s complex supply chain is part of the problem.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
President Joe Biden called on Congress to intervene to avoid a strike that he said would ‘devastate our economy.’
The country’s reliance on ‘at-will’ employment means that companies face few restrictions when they want to downsize their workforces.
Research shows that workers rarely call out unethical behavior or even just operational problems, in large part because they fear serious consequences.
The author, who died Sept. 1, 2022, inspired countless researchers to probe the injustices working people face.
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Professor Emeritus of Business, Wayne State University
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Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
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Professor Emeritus of Management, Colorado State University
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Professor of Law and Director, Workplace Law Program, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, UMass Amherst
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Professor of U.S. History and Labor Studies, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Professor of Law and John F. Kimberling Chair, Indiana University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
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Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Michigan State University
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Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Michigan State University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Assistant Professor of Management, Babson College