Labor

Despite the government’s anti-immigration rhetoric, many Polish businesses rely on workers from other parts of Eastern Europe.

Governments and companies are returning to business at many different speeds. All worry that something might go wrong.

Beijing is doubling down on its plan to keep migrants out of big cities.

As Qatar races to complete construction projects ahead of the 2022 World Cup, a small army of workers from South Asia are on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

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.