Domestic workers in Jamaica often experience low pay, poor working conditions and informal work arrangements. Here’s how unionization could change their situation.
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Paid domestic work has a low status in South Africa. The labour of domestic workers is often undervalued and unrecognised.
Any policy interventions from Creative Australia to support visual and craft artists’ incomes will need to take a sector-wide approach.
The idea of embedding robust labour obligations in the Kenya-US agreement is highly controversial.
Aboriginal people in 1951 framed cultural practice as labour and as a tool for advocacy for Aboriginal rights stretching across the continent.
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.
Indonesian worker protests about a new emergency regulation – issued suddenly in late 2022 to replace a controversial job creation law – look likely to continue ahead of the February 2024 election.
More than half a million Ethiopian migrants have been deported from Saudi Arabia since 2017.
In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
In an important step for an industry that has been accused of exploitative working conditions for decades, video game workers in Edmonton recently voted to unionize for the first time in Canada.
Through their attempts to assist miners with their daily needs, Zambian unions enable lower wages and worse working conditions.
Most of the million gardners employed in South Africa earn less than the minimum wage.
In post-pandemic Canada, the media will play a big role in shaping public understanding of labour conditions. A future of work that is safe and equitable requires the voices of workers.
An Ontario labour board decision to allow Foodora workers to unionize appears to have set an important precedent. But unionizing workers in the gig economy will continue to be an uphill battle.
Last year, more than 70,000 workers walked off their jobs in New Zealand – the highest number of people on strike since the late 1980s. The reasons for the strike wave are political and economic.
The Panama Canal was a tremendous achievement by the U.S. and a display of their power and abilities. However, the health costs to the mostly Caribbean contract workers was enormous.
Major nations make labour rights a key part of trade deals. But what happens next?
Once investors put their shoulders to the wheel, everything changes.
In some places, the dismal labour conditions of young academics have spurred them to unionise. Not so in the Czech Republic, where students and intellectuals lead lives of “state-ordered poverty”.
It’s time to update the old agenda of the 19th century: less working time and more money for all, in the form of shorter work days and a universal basic income.
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Politics, University of Glasgow
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Lecturer in Management Accounting, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Agricultural Development, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in EU and International Economic Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Political Scientist , Charles University
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Lecturer (Assistant Professor), King's College London
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Lecturer, La Trobe University, La Trobe University
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Research Professor, Political Science, Chr. Michelsen Institute
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PhD Candidate, Yale University
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Associate Professor, Labour studies, Brock University
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Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
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Lecturer in Politics, Massey University
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Professor & Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor in Environment and Development, Australian National University
