Labor

Global warming could launch socialists to unprecedented power—and expose their movement’s deepest contradictions.

In the light of day, utopian fantasies about a failed leader are dissolving.

Coerced Uighur labor touches almost every part of the supply chain.

Voters want to close borders. Activists want to open them.

Germans welcomed an unprecedented number of Middle Easterners into their country—but not always into their workplaces.

Police unions are using their country’s newfound freedoms to protect themselves—and attack freedom fighters.

The famously permissive Dutch city is cracking down on prostitution, relocating sex workers, and discriminating against those employed in the industry.

Countries facing labor shortages tend to focus on one or the other—but it doesn’t have to be a choice.

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?