Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law in 2023 that lets children under 16 work without official permission from their parents.
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Some of the biggest changes to child labor laws are in Iowa and Arkansas.
Work doesn’t have to make you feel burned out.
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Changing workplace culture and the way jobs are designed can stave off depression, anxiety and burnout.
Lewis Wickes Hine, ‘A little spinner in a Georgia Cotton Mill, 1909.’
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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.
Hot flashes can happen anywhere, including at work.
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Three scholars who are writing a book about menopause and the law suggest ways to protect women experiencing it.
Dancers at Star Garden in LA have voted for union representation.
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Young motivated employees are pushing the movement for union representation among US workforces. Is it time for management to get on board?
Many restaurant workers see violence as a core aspect of a hardscrabble kitchen culture that has existed for generations.
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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.
Striking workers picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios on the second day of the Hollywood writers strike on May 3, 2023, in Burbank, Calif.
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The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
Activists in Dhaka demand safe working conditions in 2019, on the anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse.
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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.
Cesar Chavez salutes the crowd on the steps of the California State Capitol.
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A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
The federal government sent troops to crush an 1877 rail strike.
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President Joe Biden called on Congress to intervene to avoid a strike that he said would ‘devastate our economy.’
Elon Musk brought a sink to work on his first day as Twitter’s CEO, to let his new role ‘sink in.’
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The country’s reliance on ‘at-will’ employment means that companies face few restrictions when they want to downsize their workforces.
It’s not always easy to raise one’s hand in the workplace.
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Research shows that workers rarely call out unethical behavior or even just operational problems, in large part because they fear serious consequences.
Best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich in a 2005 photo.
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The author, who died Sept. 1, 2022, inspired countless researchers to probe the injustices working people face.
The reduction in foreign-born workers is weighing on the economy.
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The immigration decline over the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic led to an annual 1.1% GDP reduction, an economist estimates.
Sexual harassment is a common workplace hazard for nonprofit fundraisers.
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After studying this #MeToo problem for years, two researchers have drafted a toolkit to help nonprofits address it.
The start of a movement or a moment?
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Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, rather than established unions.
International Committee of the Red Cross workers prepare bags with bodies of government soldiers to be handed over in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, in 2015.
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Nearly all of the 129 aid workers killed on the job in 2021 were from the countries where they lost their lives.
Players voted to accept Major League Baseball’s offer on a new labor deal, paving the way to end the 99-day lockout and salvage the season.
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A sports economist explains how the deal leaves players with a fundamentally different – and in many ways, worse – arrangement than their counterparts in the other major US sports leagues.
The enslaved people who produced sugar before the Civil War did dangerous and grueling work.
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Before the Civil War, US activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew.
Unions on the rise?
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Union membership has dwindled over the past five decades. But could a flurry of positive headlines over union drives help reverse this trend?