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Haitian Sweatshop Workers Speak: Sub-Poverty Wages and Sexual Coercion
Harrowing tales of women forced to trade sex to keep employment in factories.
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Forest Service Seeks to Silence Smokey the Bear Over Fracking
An artist's use of the iconic Smokey the Bear for anti-fracking propaganda might land her jail time.
A Strike Is a Strike and Only a Strike
Ann Hodges and Ellen Dannin show how courts eroded employee power with a legal quagmire where strikes are risky.
Opting Out of Wall Street and Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities: Remaking Finance, Part III
Community time banks and local currencies can be an effective means to escape the corrupt extractive finance system.
Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week
In the midst of a deepening jobs crisis, Republicans are proposing legislation that kills the only law that creates employment.
Laundering The Public Image Of Worker-Killing Sweatshops
The industry responsible for monitoring labor and safety practices of multinational suppliers has failed miserably.
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Clamoring for Justice in the Open: May Day 2013 in New York City
New York City hosted vibrant festivals for justice this May Day. A photo-essay by Craig O'Connor and Molly Knefel.
With Obama Visit, Mexicans Scrutinize US Immigration Bill
Mexico's reception of President Barack Obama last weekend and of his immigration reform bill is decidedly mixed. The bill's emphasis on border security and its downgrading of family reunification …
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That Unemployment Form Might Violate Your Civil Rights
The Department of Labor ruled that arbitrary obstacles in Florida's process violate federal civil rights protections.
Survival of the … Nicest? Check Out the Other Theory of Evolution
A new theory of human origins says cooperation - not competition - is instinctive.