How do we take care of delivery riders who are often exposed to multiple risks? What are their needs in terms of social protection? Researchers asked them these questions directly.
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The deaths of six Amazon employees at a factory hit by a tornado raises concerns over prohibitions on cellphones for workers.
Union membership has dwindled over the past five decades. But could a flurry of positive headlines over union drives help reverse this trend?
How could a company highly regarded for its commitment to sustainability do so badly on the industrial relations front, pushing staff to strike for almost a fortnight?
What drivers told us about life on the road.
Unions are encouraging all workers to be vaccinated, but not through employment mandates. Instead, they support bodily autonomy, workers’ rights, fairness and democracy.
There are only limited circumstances where workplace vaccine mandates are likely to be found legally justifiable.
What we want from our working environment in future needs to be explored now so that the needs of employees and employers are equally and fairly considered.
The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that drivers are entitled to workers’ rights.
One in six fishers in the Gulf of Thailand have been coerced or deceived into working against their will.
The life story of Mandlenkosi Makhoba represents the losers in the new South Africa, showing how inequality is produced and reproduced generationally.
With more people working from home post-COVID-19, what are the privacy implications of employers using spyware to monitor worker activity?
Major crises all necessitate massive state intervention.
The hazards are both psychological and physical.
What the main parties propose to do about immigration.
On Feb. 6, 1919, half of Seattle’s workforce went on strike over a demand for higher wages. A labor historian explains why it matters 100 years later.
Seemingly innocuous security chips could enable companies to monitor employees in more sinister ways.
Proposed changes to South African labour laws threaten to set back workers rights.
A legal loophole could grant computer systems many legal rights people have – threatening human rights and dignity and setting up some real legal and moral problems.
Global activism has played a big role in outlawing unpaid internships. Here’s how protests and social media shaming spurred negative media coverage of unpaid internships.
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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