Tag: labor history
Railroad unions and their employers at an impasse: Freight-halting strikes are...
Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island
The prospect of a potentially devastating rail workers strike is looming again.
Abolishing child labor took the specter of ‘white slavery’ and the...
Betsy Wood, Hudson County Community College
Today, U.S. laws and regulations bar kids under the age of 14 from working in most industries. Children under...
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...
