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How Japanese and Mexican American farm workers formed an alliance that made history
Farm workers of Japanese and Mexican heritage created a multilingual and multiracial coalition to fight for fair wages. The organization had a short life, but it stands as a powerful example of interracial solidarity in the history of labor relations.
The workers who pick your summer berries are asking you not to buy them
What the rise of the gig economy means for the American Dream
Flooding exacerbates problems with strikes in France
Would FIFA really pull soccer’s World Cup from Qatar if human rights abuses there continue?
Slowly, Cuban entrepreneurs are seizing opportunities to work for themselves
Whether in restaurants or in accounting, the Cuban economy is slowly creating opportunities for entrepreneurs.
Made in North Korea: $300 ski jackets, and a whole lot more
It's recently emerged that clothes made in North Korea's state-owned factories are being sold by major brands with labels indicating they're from China. Oops. Do you have something in your closet made in North Korea?
Every time you hail an Uber, you're killing America's middle class
The "freelance economy" might not be so great after all. Author Steven Hill argues that companies like TaskRabbit and Uber are undermining the American middle class.
One side effect of Colombia's civil war: cheap household help. But domestic workers want a better life.
Five decades of conflict has driven millions from Colombia's countryside to the cities. For poor, uneducated women from rural areas, domestic work has been one of the few options to make a living. These women say they deserve the rights other workers enjoy.
Uber’s immigrant drivers look forward to better pay—and a bigger voice
A union for Seattle Uber drivers means finally having the right to a two-way conversation with their multibillion-dollar employer.
Filipina trafficking survivors launch a co-op — and they own their own jobs
After Judith Daluz escaped from an abusive employer and reunited with her children, she struggled to make ends meet. So she started a cleaning business with other Filipinas—where she’s her own boss.
The American middle class is shrinking
For the first time in history, fewer than half of American households are in the middle class. The poorest segment and the richest segment are both growing.
An investigation finds employers abusing a visa program for guest workers
The H-2 visa program allows US employers to bring in workers from foreign countries if they can't fill the job with an American. But an investigation finds many abuses of the system.
What does human trafficking look like today? How do we stop it?
I've traveled from New England to New York to Thailand to Vietnam to China’s southeast border to expose human trafficking routes and venues, and to bring attention to sex and labor exploitation. The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Tuesday took a closer look at this modern slave trade and its impact on public health worldwide, including in cities and rural communities across the USA.
What Germany's got that America doesn't
Other capitalist nations can offer the US a few lessons on how to shrink the widening income gap.