Tag: Labor Day
Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore’s...
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, American University
Every summer, people flock to Maryland to eat blue crabs. Named for their brilliant sapphire-colored...
US autoworkers may wage a historic strike against Detroit’s 3 biggest...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
The United Auto Workers union, which represents nearly 150,000 employees of companies that manufacture...
5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
Unions are more popular now than at any time since 1965, and the U.S. is...
Robots won’t steal our jobs if we put workers at center...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Lee Dyer, Cornell University
The technologies driving artificial intelligence are expanding exponentially, leading many technology experts and...
How robots could help bridge the elder-care gap
Cynthia Matuszek, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into...
How noncompete clauses clash with US labor laws
Raymond Hogler, Colorado State University
Most Americans with jobs work “at-will”: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship and vice versa. Either party may...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
