Labor

For two centuries, countries have used low-wage labor to climb out of poverty. What will happen when robots take those jobs?

Gig work offers a leg up in the developing world.

FP’s editor in chief introduces our July issue on how to adapt to robots, AI, trade wars, and an aging world.

Technology has already driven blue-collar workers into the underclass. Professionals may be next.

AI will change everything. Workers must adapt — or else.

As schools become targets, young Afghans are living and working on the streets — and the government isn’t doing much to protect them.

Mandatory military conscription is the French equivalent of Donald Trump’s wall — a pet project that’s become a political albatross.

The United States is facing an aging population and a lack of skilled workers. The president's immigration policy is only going to make it worse.

A new report from Human Rights Watch and Uzbek activists alleges the continued use of forced and child labor in harvesting the Central Asian country’s cotton crop.

France’s new president is about to face off against some of the West's fiercest organized labor. At stake is the future of Europe.

British voters already pulled the lever for Brexit. Will they elect a terrorist-loving, Jew-baiting, NATO-hater as prime minister next?

Why now is the time to retire the idea of retirement.

A new report sheds light on punishing labor issues in the coffee sector, and on Brazil’s progressive efforts to protect farmworkers.

A group of Goodyear employees are facing jail time for holding executives hostage in 2014.

Estonian parents get two years of paid leave, U.S. prisoners make $.12 an hour, and other statistics to consider this Labor Day.

The best stories from around the world.

Yes, Burma's economy is growing — off the backs of the country's impoverished workers.

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.