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As actors join screenwriters in a strike that has shut down movie productions, a labor historian looks back at union action on the silver screen.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
Workers have gradually lost all powers to take industrial action when they feel conditions are unfair.
Migrant workers’ rights are indeed an ongoing issue in Qatar – but the country has passed reforms to improve workers’ rights, and it isn’t the only issue to define Qatar.
Education strikes by university and public school workers are political fights about diminished respect for education as a public good and workers’ rights in an economy that perpetuates inequality.
Women in the textile factories of 19th-century Glasgow faced terrible working conditions. In fighting for their rights, they prepared the ground for feminists today.
A trial in France revealed how the platform’s algorithm established a subordination relationship between riders and the firm. Could we be witnessing the beginning of the end of “uberisation”?
Successful union drives at two of America’s biggest companies were led by committed individuals, rather than established unions.
How do we take care of delivery riders who are often exposed to multiple risks? What are their needs in terms of social protection? Researchers asked them these questions directly.
The deaths of six Amazon employees at a factory hit by a tornado raises concerns over prohibitions on cellphones for workers.
Union membership has dwindled over the past five decades. But could a flurry of positive headlines over union drives help reverse this trend?
How could a company highly regarded for its commitment to sustainability do so badly on the industrial relations front, pushing staff to strike for almost a fortnight?
What drivers told us about life on the road.
Unions are encouraging all workers to be vaccinated, but not through employment mandates. Instead, they support bodily autonomy, workers’ rights, fairness and democracy.
There are only limited circumstances where workplace vaccine mandates are likely to be found legally justifiable.
What we want from our working environment in future needs to be explored now so that the needs of employees and employers are equally and fairly considered.
The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that drivers are entitled to workers’ rights.
One in six fishers in the Gulf of Thailand have been coerced or deceived into working against their will.
The life story of Mandlenkosi Makhoba represents the losers in the new South Africa, showing how inequality is produced and reproduced generationally.
Top contributors
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Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville
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Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Cultural Policy, University of Leeds
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Professor of the Future of Work, Newcastle University
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Senior research associate, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Law, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor, University of Aberdeen
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Senior lecturer, The University of Edinburgh
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E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
