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A global movement of low-wage workers is improving conditions for fast food employees and others in the U.S. and around the world. A Dartmouth labor historian examines the movement’s origins.
Whether you’re spending the holiday shopping for bargains, barbecuing with friends or striking for better pay, here are a few Labor Day highlights from our labor experts.
The idea of a four-day workweek sounds great, and many companies have tested or even implemented it, citing happier, healthier workers. But here’s why it may not be healthy.
The link between labor’s decline and stagnating worker pay has convinced some politicians that we need to rebuild unions. What we need are new labor policies for tomorrow’s workforce.
Research shows that government interventions decried by the GOP actually make people happier.
A significant share of the workforce wakes up every day without knowing at what time they’ll work – or even if they will earn anything at all.
Top contributors
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Professor of Business and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Arizona
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Professor of Economics and Labor-Employment Relations, Penn State
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Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, UMBC, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of History, Dartmouth College
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Professor Emeritus of Management, Colorado State University
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Professor of Public Health, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Education & Policy, Boston College
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Professor Emeritus of Human Resource Studies and Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University
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Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies Professor, Work and Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Ph.D. Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
