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Dairy workers grub for minimum wage in sickening manure pits -- so American consumers can have cheap milk and cheese.
By Rebecca Clarren
August 27, 2004
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My menial job at a world-famous Washington resort was a crash course in today's screw-the-worker zeitgeist -- and the charming, monied guests who thrust bloody bandages into my hands and made my dignified old co-worker perform like a seal.
By Claudia O'Keefe
April 28, 2004
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Not all trips to India are blessed by Krishna: A case study of outsourcing gone awry.
By Sam Williams
April 6, 2004
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Bangalore resident Rachna Asirvatham has a 56K modem, a bookcase full of software manuals ... and a bunch of American clients.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
April 6, 2004
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My cousins and I do the same kind of work. But their parents stayed in India, while mine moved to the United States.
By Sumana Harihareswara
March 10, 2004
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Fans have plenty of good reasons to support ownership in sports labor wars. The readers write.
March 3, 2004
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Only in the sports world do regular folks side with Mr. Scrooge.
February 27, 2004
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The increasing move of white-collar jobs overseas is inevitable, says one longtime Silicon Valley activist. So the fight for workers' rights has to go global.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
January 27, 2004
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American workers won't like what venture capitalist Ravi Chiruvolu says about why his tech start-ups are built using Indian workers. But they'd better listen.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
December 17, 2003
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Direct action offers a thrill at once addictive and searing, but this movement needs to grow, or we will only be speaking to ourselves.
By Marisa Handler
November 24, 2003
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On a day of chaos and confrontation between riot police and protesters in Miami, stereotypes are broken and solidarity is forged.
By Marisa Handler
November 21, 2003
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On Day 2, tension starts to rise as thousands of protesters plan for a collision with thousands of police.
By Marisa Handler
November 20, 2003
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At least one systems administrator has had enough: It's time to hit the picket line.
By Joel Keller
November 6, 2003
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Consumers love ATMs, self-checkout machines and airport boarding-pass kiosks. But what about the workers who get automated out of existence?
By Farhad Manjoo
September 18, 2003
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William Greider has faith that we can inject morality into the free market. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but still, ya gotta believe.
By Andrew Leonard
September 16, 2003
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The growth of white-collar jobs in developing nations is essential to global peace and prosperity.
By Brian Behlendorf
July 8, 2003
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Did employee stock ownership drive the airline into bankruptcy?
By Farhad Manjoo
December 12, 2002
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The players get it. The big-market owners get it. So why do the small-market owners seem so dense?
By Allen Barra
August 23, 2002
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This is always a slow time of year, but now, with baseball's labor unrest
dominating the news, it's downright depressing.
By King Kaufman
July 17, 2002
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Maple Razsa, an organizer from last year's living wage sit-in at Harvard, talks about his documentary on the event, snooping administrators and Oprah's take on poverty.
By Chris Colin
June 3, 2002
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The running shoes company wanted to give a big cash prize to an Indonesian labor activist. But Dita Sari said no.
By Leslie Dwyer
March 25, 2002
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As the head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, he challenged the assumptions that players are chattel and that labor unions have no place within sports.
By David Davis
August 8, 2001
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A new documentary follows two young activists on a crusade to expose the tech industry's labor woes.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
May 1, 2001
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New economy, old economy -- what's the difference when you're working on the assembly line? Not much, say the makers of "Secrets of Silicon Valley."
By Katharine Mieszkowski
May 1, 2001
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Thousands of protesters send out an SOS in Quebec: Governments are giving corporations free rein to negotiate a hemispheric trade pact.
By David Moberg
April 23, 2001