Labor

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How Finance Gutted Manufacturing

Since the 1980s, financial market pressures have driven companies to hive off activities that sustained manufacturing.

Suzanne Berger

Class & Inequality

7 Bipartisan Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage

It's only fair, and other reasons why voters on all sides should agree.

Mike Konczal

Class & Inequality, Race

Lost Radicals

The internationalism of black radicals was an alternative to a universalism that wasn't universal.

Eric Mann

Mexican Education Reform from Below

Photograph: flickr/Lonjho Over the past month tens of thousands of Mexican teachers and their

Hilda Vázquez Medina, Adam Goodman

Class & Inequality

Job Openings

Today’s high unemployment isn’t a result of a lack of skilled labor but rather a slow recovery.

Paul Osterman, Andrew Weaver

Alt-Labor Day, 2013

Flicker: Fast Food Strikes, NYC, July 2013; mtume_soul. Fast food workers in dozens of cities

Amy B. Dean

Why People Blame Themselves

Detail from Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs. In her lead essay for the most

Jennifer M. Silva

Class & Inequality

Ages and Wages

In the last decade, the earnings of older workers have increased significantly, which may reduce some of the pain of cuts to the social safety net.

Gary Burtless

Class & Inequality, Global Justice

The Promise and Limits of Private Power

Richard M. Locke visits Brown's Watson Institute to discuss the ideas from his recent forum essay Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?

Richard M. Locke

Forum

Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?

Private efforts to improve global working conditions have failed.

Richard M. Locke

Class & Inequality

The Leisure Gap

Why Don’t Americans Take Vacations?

Claude S. Fischer

Class & Inequality

Good Jobs

Far too many American adults work in low-wage jobs. Better jobs seem the obvious solution.

Paul Osterman