Posts tagged labor
Posts tagged labor
All over the world, workers are paid pennies to do menial online tasks in a largely unregulated, multimillion-dollar industry. Welcome to the Internet’s factory floor.
East Bay Express || August 1, 2012
It’s time to not just to pay lip service to “the end of men,” but to place real value on women’s work.
Dissent Magazine || Winter 2013
About a year ago, record numbers of garment laborers in factories across Cambodia - which exports 70 percent of the garments manufactured there to the US - were reported to be suddenly and mysteriously falling to the ground, unconscious.
Truthout || April 4, 2012
Will the career waiters of Gen Y occupy the service industry?
GOOD || Spring 2012
Inspired by the WTO protests, a demonstrator took a job in an Amazon warehouse to try and unionize the workers there
The Atlantic || December 12, 2011
Over the past twenty-four hours, I’ve exchanged numerous text messages with Wisconsin’s Chris Larson. I am here on the trail of a missing state senator.
Slake || August 8, 2011
There are those who can afford and need domestic help but don’t have it on principle. What is this principle?
McSweeney’s || May 18, 2011
Why there’s a war in Wisconsin and not in California
Slake || March 14, 2011
A closer look at the teachers and students behind the massive labor protests in Madison.
The Nation || March 2, 2011