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For Native Americans there is something also familiar about Maya’s interactions with family and friends, with the way the community speaks to each other, and the sense that distance doesn’t mean separation. ‘Indian humor’ is prevalent throughout.

Young workers face pay discrimination in 34 states and DC

War remains headline news, as ever, perhaps distracting public attention from the Big Bang, so says poet Gerry Sloan.

He was one of the last survivors of a historic walkout that demanded respect and a living wage and that drew Martin Luther King to their cause.

The role of strategy in making social movements and organizations more effective, and who creates it, are the urgent questions four authors explore in three new books. Their answers will surprise you, as they surprised me.

Subminimum wages reinforce the notion that food service is not serious labor and that payment for that work should be conditional.

Over 30% of workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant outside of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, have signed union authorization cards, the United Auto Workers (UAW) announced on Tuesday.

This history of neoliberalism focuses on how this school of thought and governance repurposed the Protestant work ethic to serve the wealthiest one percent.

" Wouldn’t people have understood precisely who he was?  The answer is simple:  Yes, they understood who he was, and they did not care--until two things happened. First, he fell out of style. And second, the brutality of the man became undeniable."

Academics decry algorithmic monitoring of workers and call for stronger standards – but U.S. unions have been slow to act.