Labor

A Totally Different Way to Think About Economics — with Visionary Charles Eisenstein

By Adam Parsons / Share the World's Resources

What would the world look like if money embodied our values?

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More Than 46 Million Americans Still in Poverty

By Salvatore Babones / Truthout

‘The Revolution Will Not Be Standardized’: Day Two of the Chicago Teachers Strike

By Kari Lydersen / In These Times

Roseanne Barr: The War on Drugs Is Just Plain Crazy

By Roseanne Barr / Huffington Post

5 So-Called Liberal Pundits Who Are Attacking Teachers

By Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Fast Food Workers Launch Strikes Across New York City

America Didn’t “End” Slavery After the Civil War -- We Simply Exported It

How Walmart and Other Huge Companies Support Horrific Conditions That Kill Workers

Labor

Memo to the Punditocracy: Public Sector Jobs Are Real Jobs!

Marshall Auerback / CounterPunch

Stand Against Rahm! The Chicago Teachers' Strike Is the Next Chapter in the Fight Against Plutocracy

Rick Perlstein / Salon

Between Violence and a New Social Contract: South Africa at a Crossroads

Francis Njubi Nesbitt / Foreign Policy in Focus

The Dystopian Digital Sweatshop That Makes the Internet Run

Zakia Uddin / AlterNet

Why the Chicago Teachers Strike Is Really About Better Schools

David Moberg / In These Times

4 Reasons Chicago's Teachers Are on Strike

Miles Kampf-Lassin / Occupied Chicago Tribune

Why I'm Striking

Xian Barrett / Teacher X

Top Progressive Senator Shares What It's Like to Fight Against $15 Million Deluge in Right-Wing Election Money

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Mitt Romney Is the Poster Child for Why There's No Economic Recovery -- Why Are Democrats So Bad at Saying That?

Marcy Wheeler / Emptywheel

How Reforming Welfare and Gutting Programs for the Poor Became a Bipartisan Platform

Michelle Chen / In These Times

The Hidden Progressive History of Income Tax

Erik Loomis / AlterNet

Chicago Teachers Uprising Takes on a 1 Percent Mayor, and the Labor Establishment to Boot

Ari Paul / AlterNet

Years Later, Human Trafficking Survivors at Risk of Re-Exploitation

Ambika Kandasamy / New America Media/ SF Public Press

Obama's Big Finale at the DNC -- Dems Are More Agressive, United Than We've Seen in Years

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Impossible Choices? The Conservatism of "Breaking Bad"

Michael Corcoran / Truthout

Chicago Teachers Countdown to Strike Time

Theresa Moran / Labor Notes

Insecurity Is What Separates the Middle Class From Romney and Ryan.

Leo Gerard / AlterNet

It's a Screwed-Up World When Prostituted Women Are Arrested More Often Than the Johns Who Abuse and Kill Them

Claire Glass / AlterNet

Is This California’s Last Labor Day?

Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

Audit of Apple’s Chinese Factories Reveals Bandaid Reforms

Michelle Chen / In These Times

Poverty: The New Growth Industry in America

Dean Baker / Op-Ed News

What Ralph Nader Is Thinking About the 2012 Election

Evelyn Nieves / AlterNet

Bain Capital Workers Face Down Mitt Romney Over the Outsourcing of Their Jobs

Amy Goodman / Democracy Now!

The Secret of Why Wealthy Americans Aren't Always the Most Charitable

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Low Benefits, Temporary Jobs -- Work Is Getting Worse ... But Hope for Labor Rights Is Emerging from a Surprising Place

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

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