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Workers byte back

04/07/201921/01/2022 - Leave a Comment

Cross-border brands feel the heat from digitally organised labour. Grazia Ietto-Gillies  explains. In 2014 the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) declared that in some 43 labour disputes filed since …

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She dared to meddle

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Perkins: her 12 years as Secretary for Labour is a record: it took American women 50 years to match her tenure between them. Tom Levitt introduces his book on the life …

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Holding it all together

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Isaac Stanley explains why care is infrastructure. Biden’s much-discussed Infrastructure Bill eventually passed into law in October in the US. This followed extensive political wrangling between different wings of the …

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Child labour on the rise for the first time since 2000

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Child labour has increased to 160 million – the first rise in two decades – and that number could swell by millions more because of the effects of the coronavirus …

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India’s Female Labour Participation Rate Falls to 16.1% As Pandemic Hits Job Sector

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Female labour participation rate in India fell to 16.1% during the July-September 2020 quarter, the lowest among the major economies, a government report said, reflecting the impact of pandemic and a widening job crisis. The percentage of women …

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Long covid

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Dr Hanna Szymborska asks what does Sunak’s labour market policy mean for women? Ever since the first national lockdown was imposed in March 2020, rising unemployment has been one of …

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Gap analysis

14/12/202002/01/2022 - 1 Comment

A woman’s work: “Producing well-socialised human beings, who collectively are often referred to as the labour supply.” Jennifer Cohen explains why there are no such things as women’s economic issues. …

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Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction

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 From the publisher: An analysis of the divergent strands of feminism, as the fight for women’s emancipation takes centre stage. Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the …

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How new technology is helping to identify human rights abuses in the seafood industry

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Every year, the U.S. imports billions of dollars worth of seafood from countries that may be using forced labor on distant water fishing vessels. A growing cadre of tech companies …

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Japan’s Struggling Single Mothers Expose the Flaws of Womenomics

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Under Japan’s women’s advancement strategy, dubbed “womenomics,” a record number of women joined the labor force to help fill the country’s chronic labor shortage and resuscitate the sluggish economy. Amid …

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