Labor

Labor unions in Turkey join with anti-government strikers to demand wage increases for the people.

Taxpayer-funded social welfare programs subsidize low-paying Walmart's profits to the tune of up to $2 million.

Obama wants a secret target list for possible cyber attacks, a major expansion of US planning for disabling and hacking into foreign computer networks.

Updates on Disney's price hikes, Portugal's unions' general strike, Chinese buy US biggest pork processor, low-wage retail workers fighting in Seattle, General Petraeus goes corporate, and income/wealth inequality in …

The contradictory history and results of the first 150 years of modern socialism provide key lessons for a successful socialism in the 21st century.

Corporate executives at the American Liberty League undermined the National Labor Relations Act from its outset.

Updates on corporate globalization, Philly schools, paid vacation law(?), the Cadillac Tax. Interview with Stanley Aronowitz on labor, unions and the left. Responses to listeners on higher ed economics …

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and the non-profit group he founded called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, each received a letter containing the deadly poison ricin.

Paul Krugman: We've entered a looking-glass world in which virtue is vice and prudence is folly, and in which doing the responsible thing is a recipe for economic failure.

Beverly Bell takes a look at the economics behind third world sweatshops to propose how alternative pathways can be found.