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A new study by the University of Liège that takes a closer look at the situation in Belgium shows that there is public support for granting undocumented migrants who work legal status.
South Africa is proposing to extend labour and social protections to platform workers.
The employment rights bill will affect the working conditions of millions of people in the UK.
Tracking disability policies has long been challenging − this will become a harder task under the Trump administration.
Digitalising social protection overcomes several inefficiencies – but also creates barriers that prevent access for millions of people.
Advances in technology mean employers can keep tabs on workers long after the workday has finished. New Zealand needs to follow global examples and strengthen workers rights beyond the workplace.
According to the UN and rights organizations, people with an intellectual disability are still often exploited in workplaces in Québec and Canada.
A statutory right to request flexible-working arrangements was introduced in 2014 but has been little used. New legislation coming into force could change all that.
A radical research project in Scotland has created a new layer of history for a concentration camp archive in Germany.
The rise in union support can be explained by the growing recognition people are having of their own disadvantages, and the anger they feel about it.
Should companies offer tailored timetables and workplaces on the basis of our different bodies, or are universal solutions, such as the four-day week, the way forward?
As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action on the silver screen.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
Workers have gradually lost all powers to take industrial action when they feel conditions are unfair.
Migrant workers’ rights are indeed an ongoing issue in Qatar – but the country has passed reforms to improve workers’ rights, and it isn’t the only issue to define Qatar.
Education strikes by university and public school workers are political fights about diminished respect for education as a public good and workers’ rights in an economy that perpetuates inequality.
Women in the textile factories of 19th-century Glasgow faced terrible working conditions. In fighting for their rights, they prepared the ground for feminists today.
A trial in France revealed how the platform’s algorithm established a subordination relationship between riders and the firm. Could we be witnessing the beginning of the end of “uberisation”?
Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, rather than established unions.
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
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Associate Professor, and Head of the School of Marketing and International Business, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Leeds
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docteure en civilisation britannique, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
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Professeur-chercheur en management, EM Lyon Business School
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E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
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Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Professor of the Future of Work, Newcastle University
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Professor of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University
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Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston
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Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Southampton
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Senior researcher at CSIC (Ingenio, CSIC-UPV), Universitat Politècnica de València