Over the past few months, a wave of high-profile wildcat strikes has been attracting attention in Chinese and Western media. Worker unrest at companies including Foxconn, which makes parts for Apple iPods, and the...
In New York City, 65% of the working poor and one-third of middle and higher income workers lack paid sick days. Legislation currently under consideration in the City Council would change this by guaranteeing paid sick...
Last week an estimated 15,000 people convened in Detroit for the US Social Forum, only the second such gathering to take place in this country. With over 1,000 workshops, fifty People's Movement Assemblies and...
Nearly 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India in the past ten years, but this fact is ignored by much of the mainstream Indian media. A new documentary follows veteran journalist P.Sainath as he puts faces and...
On Friday, the Louisiana Workforce Commission found in favor of Filipino teachers who, together with the American Federation of Teachers, challenged the policies of the recruiting agency that arranged for them to come...
Elmhurst’s massive Queens Center Mall is one of the busiest and most profitable malls in the country, but most of the workers who staff its stores and restaurants earn no more than $7.25—the federal minimum wage. Now a...
How much does a Big Mac cost? How about $200? That’s the true cost of a burger, according to a new book about how our market-driven society sets prices that have nothing to with the real value of things. Tune in for a...
For more than five years, New York’s domestic workers—nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers--have been organizing, rallying, and lobbying to pass a Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. Now, that bill--the first of...
Historian Gary Okihiro traces the transit of the pineapple—from tropical America to European tables and back to America—to tell the story of empire. Along the way, he locates Hawaii at the center of a world system of...
The national health care debate continues to rage with no sign of an acceptable solution. But amidst all the argument there are some key puzzle pieces often missing from the picture: namely the concerns specific to...
