Tag: Labor
Why Google’s employees walked out and what it could mean for...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
The recent walkout by thousands of Google employees at offices around the world was the first protest of...
Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an...
Alan J. Kellner, Northwestern University
In July, I was walking with my parents through the newly constructed Titletown District in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a new...
US prisoners’ strike is reminder how commonplace inmate labor is –...
Ruben J. Garcia, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Prisoners in 17 U.S. states went on strike on Aug. 21 by refusing to eat or work...
Does thinking you look fat affect how much money you earn?
Patricia Smith, University of Michigan and Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
Two things people often think about are money and their appearance. Past...
How ‘media snacks’ – from HQ Trivia to Candy Crush –...
Ethan Tussey, Georgia State University
When Snow White sang “Whistle While You Work,” she was participating in a long tradition of using entertainment to manage...
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 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...
How union stakes in ailing papers like the Chicago Sun-Times may...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
The recent purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times for a nominal US$1 by a consortium of labor-affiliated organizations and individual investors...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
