• Got guilt?

    Dairy workers grub for minimum wage in sickening manure pits -- so American consumers can have cheap milk and cheese.
  • Brave new jobs

    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.
  • When offshoring goes bad

    Not all trips to India are blessed by Krishna: A case study of outsourcing gone awry.
  • The global market at work

    Bangalore resident Rachna Asirvatham has a 56K modem, a bookcase full of software manuals ... and a bunch of American clients.
  • I am Indian. I am American. I do customer support.

    My cousins and I do the same kind of work. But their parents stayed in India, while mine moved to the United States.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Fans have plenty of good reasons to support ownership in sports labor wars. The readers write.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Only in the sports world do regular folks side with Mr. Scrooge.
  • What's labor going to do about offshoring?

    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.
  • "Moving to India is not a luxury. It is a necessity"

    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.
  • Notes from an activist: After Miami, what next?

    Direct action offers a thrill at once addictive and searing, but this movement needs to grow, or we will only be speaking to ourselves.
  • Notes from an activist: Running with the Black Bloc

    On a day of chaos and confrontation between riot police and protesters in Miami, stereotypes are broken and solidarity is forged.
  • Notes from an activist: Preparing for the showdown

    On Day 2, tension starts to rise as thousands of protesters plan for a collision with thousands of police.
  • Want to stop your job from being outsourced? Join a union.

    At least one systems administrator has had enough: It's time to hit the picket line.
  • Welcome to the machine?

    Consumers love ATMs, self-checkout machines and airport boarding-pass kiosks. But what about the workers who get automated out of existence?
  • Desperately seeking capitalism's soul

    William Greider has faith that we can inject morality into the free market. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but still, ya gotta believe.
  • How outsourcing will save the world

    The growth of white-collar jobs in developing nations is essential to global peace and prosperity.
  • United's ESOP fable

    Did employee stock ownership drive the airline into bankruptcy?
  • Baseball Economics for Dummies

    The players get it. The big-market owners get it. So why do the small-market owners seem so dense?
  • Dismal dog days

    This is always a slow time of year, but now, with baseball's labor unrest dominating the news, it's downright depressing.
  • Welcome to the occupation

    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.
  • A reprimand for Reebok

    The running shoes company wanted to give a big cash prize to an Indonesian labor activist. But Dita Sari said no.
  • Marvin Miller

    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.
  • Take that, Silicon Valley!

    A new documentary follows two young activists on a crusade to expose the tech industry's labor woes.
  • Can my mommy have her paycheck?

    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."
  • Will free trade kill democracy?

    Thousands of protesters send out an SOS in Quebec: Governments are giving corporations free rein to negotiate a hemispheric trade pact.
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