Research shows older workers, and those without qualifications, struggle to move out of low-wage work. The evidence challenges claims that the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher pay.
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Low-wage workers are less likely than high-wage workers to have access to things like masks, hand sanitizer and training on how to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
Since Reconstruction, states have leased prisoners to US industries. That diminished in the 20th century, but now it’s resurging, with prisoners leased to harvest food for American consumers.
Adequate and quality childcare determines women’s participation in the labour force and the type of work they can take on.
Although over 200 CEOs have promised to share windfalls from the recent tax cut with their employers – something the president is likely to bring up in the State of the Union – research suggests workers aren’t holding their breath.
A global movement of low-wage workers is improving conditions for fast food employees and others in the U.S. and around the world. A Dartmouth labor historian examines the movement’s origins.
The hospitality and tourism sector is struggling to find a good supply of lower-paid workers in the CBD, because that is also where they face either high housing or travel costs.
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Senior Lecturer City Planning, UNSW
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Research Associate, Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit, Rhodes University
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Professor of History, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW
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Research Associate, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Policy Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology
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Professor of Practice and Graduate Program Director, UMass Amherst
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Food Systems Geographer, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center, UMass Amherst