From Promoting Economic Pluralism
The European Commission on Wednesday launched a public consultation to look into the legal employment status and conditions of gig economy workers. It is the bloc’s first step aimed at improving the rights …
EU takes step to help ‘gig’ economy workers Read More
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 …
Japan’s Struggling Single Mothers Expose the Flaws of Womenomics Read More
For years, Amazon employees have fought for unions and been quashed by their powerful employer. At last, they are poised to succeed. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), …
Facing aggressive pushback, Amazon workers to vote on forming the company’s first American union Read More
It seems that actually only fools, horses and men work. Perhaps it’s time to recruit elsewhere. Frances Coppola looks at the “Situations Vacant”. A woman’s work, we are told, is …
Someone’s got to do it Read More
Women’s reality is often invisible in economic analysis and that’s not hard to see. And the lack of women in economics too is clear, even outside the mainstream. The …
Rein in men Read More
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 …
She dared to meddle Read More
In recent weeks, dizzying statistics have circulated on social media about Amazon’s pandemic-era boom and the obscene wealth accrued by its CEO, and Earth’s richest man, Jeff Bezos. The company reported …
Amazon Workers Are Organizing a Global Struggle Read More
From the publisher: Harshly exploited migrant labour plays a fundamental role in the political economy of contemporary capitalism. The abstract and utopian theorising of many liberals and leftists on the migration question …
Migration Beyond Capitalism Read More
From the publisher: Unions face a once in a generation opportunity for renewal. Decades of decline have been compounded by a global elite who increasingly generate profit from financial engineering in ways …
Unions Renewed Read More
The descendants of Indian Tamil tea plantation workers remain stuck at the bottom of Sri Lankan society. Many of them continue to work under harsh conditions for a meager daily …
Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea workers live under a legacy of exploitation Read More