New York City’s 10,000 street vendors play an important and vibrant role in the city's cultural and gastronomic landscape, selling food, artwork and other merchandise. Yet they are often made invisible in the...
Last week’s collapse of a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh left over 370 dead with scores of people still missing. The tragedy has renewed calls for international fair labor standards in the garment industry...
We’re used to hearing about factory closures in the US and all the jobs being shipped overseas to countries in Asia where workers can be paid far less and labor under far worse conditions. This is the basic labor...
Park Geun-hye, daughter of military dictator Park Jung-hee and the leader of the conservative New Frontier Party, narrowly beat Democrat Moon Jae-in in the recent South Korean presidential election. What will five more...
If you’ve ever gotten your nails done in the city, you know that the one of the costs of a beautiful manicure is having to breathe noxious fumes for half an hour or so. But what if you had to spend all day breathing...
A new report from Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM) and the Urban Justice Center reveals that South Asian workers in New York City are consistently underpaid, overworked and harassed at the workplace. To hear about the...
The first May Day actions were organized by the Eight Hour-Day Movement in 1886, when more than 300,000 workers nationwide walked off their jobs in solidarity with 120,000 laborers striking on behalf of an eight-hour...
