A strike would shake up the auto industry, even though both the union’s ranks and the share of the US automotive market controlled by GM, Ford and Stellantis have been shrinking for decades.
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The strike would have been the first for the parcel delivery giant since 1997.
Talks between the the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and company bosses have broken down. A supply chain expert explores what could happen next.
Reagan is the only union leader to serve as US President. Paradoxically, he was also one of the most aggressively anti-union presidents of the 20th century.
Some of the ways that streaming has transformed the industry are jeopardizing actors’ livelihoods.
Some of the biggest changes to child labor laws are in Iowa and Arkansas.
Changing workplace culture and the way jobs are designed can stave off depression, anxiety and burnout.
While Lewis Hine’s early-20th century photographs of working children compelled Congress to limit or ban child labor, the US Department of Labor is now under fire for failing to enforce these laws.
Three scholars who are writing a book about menopause and the law suggest ways to protect women experiencing it.
Young motivated employees are pushing the movement for union representation among US workforces. Is it time for management to get on board?
Barbara Lynch’s alleged bullying of her employees is only the latest in a string of high-profile chef scandals. Two scholars explore how this behavior became normalized in kitchens across the US.
The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
Ten years after the collapse at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, the garment industry’s deadliest disaster, reforms are incomplete. The opaqueness of today’s complex supply chain is part of the problem.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
President Joe Biden called on Congress to intervene to avoid a strike that he said would ‘devastate our economy.’
The country’s reliance on ‘at-will’ employment means that companies face few restrictions when they want to downsize their workforces.
Research shows that workers rarely call out unethical behavior or even just operational problems, in large part because they fear serious consequences.
The author, who died Sept. 1, 2022, inspired countless researchers to probe the injustices working people face.
The immigration decline over the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic led to an annual 1.1% GDP reduction, an economist estimates.
After studying this #MeToo problem for years, two researchers have drafted a toolkit to help nonprofits address it.
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Professor Emeritus of Management, Colorado State University
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Professor of Business and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor of Law and Director, Workplace Law Program, Texas A&M University
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Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Director of the Labor Center, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Michigan State University
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Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Assistant Professor of Educational Policy & Leadership, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs; Professor of Law and Ira C. Batman Faculty Fellow, Indiana University
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Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Villanova University
