List of Labor Policy articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. and Chinese Stocks Off to a Very Bad Start to 2016
U.S. and Chinese stocks get bludgeoned on the first trading day of 2016.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mapped: Bangladesh Still Has a Garment Factory Problem
A new report released by NYU found that 3 million garment workers in Bangladesh remain at risk.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pope Francis Is a Great Economist
His speeches in Washington weren’t just allegory and hope. They were a clear message to Congress to avoid creating a permanent American economic underclass.
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Migrant workers harvest strawberries at a farm March 13, 2013 near Oxnard, California. A mess with no easy fix: American crops going unpicked -- it's backbreaking work Americans won't touch -- and poor migrants in need of work are shying away for fear of being abused. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images) Workers of the World, Divided!
Estonian parents get two years of paid leave, U.S. prisoners make $.12 an hour, and other statistics to consider this Labor Day.
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Muslim ethnic Uighur women pass a Chinese paramilatary police on patrol on a street in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region on July 3, 2010 ahead of the first anniversary of bloody violence that erupted between the region's Muslim ethnic Uighurs and members of China's majority Han ethnicity. The government says nearly 200 people were killed and about 1,700 injured in the unrest, China's worst ethnic violence in decades, with Han making up most of the victims. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Dark Side of Burma’s Economic Boom
Yes, Burma's economy is growing — off the backs of the country's impoverished workers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Dangerously Divergent Interests of Wall Street and Main Street
When banks and the bourgeoisie are at cross purposes, everyone loses sooner or later.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Laundering the Global Garment Industry’s Dirty Business
Two years after Bangladesh's Rana Plaza disaster, experts say a dense network of little-known agents and subcontractors is still getting in the way of better work conditions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Gold, Oil, and Cigarettes: How an Obscure Trade Provision Protects the World’s Biggest Companies
Investor-state provisions in free trade agreements allow companies to arbitrate disputes with governments outside of local courts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Are Chadian Youth Rioting Over a Motorcycle Helmet Law?
In Chad, a new law passed requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets. But the cost of helmets has now tripled and students fear they won't be able to afford their daily rides to class.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Anyone Stop the World Cup in Qatar?
Workers have died by the hundreds constructing the emirate's soccer fantasy land, and still FIFA is intent on keeping the tournament there. Here’s a not-so-crazy alternative.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Amazon Grinch and Germany’s Unhappy Elves
When an American online retailer brings its start-up style to unionized Central Europe, workers go on strike.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘We Were Being Killed for Something We Didn’t Even Know’
Two years after South Africa's Marikana miners' strike and massacre, neither Lungisile Madwantsi -- nor his country -- has healed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Isn’t the Time to Go Wobbly on Slavery
The U.K. government has made a good start on its war on slavery. But it needs to get serious.
