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Ο Aδελφός του Elon Musk Θέλει να Φτιάξει Ουτοπικούς Κήπους Μάθησης, Χωρίς Εργατικά Σωματεία
Το προσωπικό της ΜΚΟ του Kimbal Musk, Big Green, απαγορεύεται να συζητάει κατ’ ιδίαν ή δημόσια για το σωματείο τους, και απειλούνται με απόλυση αν το κάνουν.
Former Walmart Employees Demand to Be Reinstated
The smiley-faced insignia of the country’s largest employer has become a symbol of exploitation to many who stock its shelves and man its registers. Protests were held in cities across the country Thursday calling for better working conditions and...
Stoya on Ethics, Porn, and Workers' Rights
I got screwed on my first porn contract. I was naive enough to sign a stock agreement, and what I've learned from my early dealings is that a fair deal in porn means making sure that the exploitation is mutual and balanced. But for other workers in...
Fast Food Workers Fight for $15 an Hour
If today's minimum wage had kept pace with the rise in worker productivity since 1968, it would be $21.72, three times the present minimum. That's why about 200 fast-food workers from all over New York City walked off the job Monday, risking their...
Some People Who Have Screwed the Labor Party, Including Some People From the Labor Party
A look at the history of this Government shows that it has a track record of success in getting things done, but a propensity to distract voters from those achievements through a lack of discipline and some terrible PR decisions.
Workers' Rights in Egypt Stalled Two Years After the Revolution
Hundreds of workers joined unemployed youth, students, and other groups opposed to President Mohamed Morsi's government and marched to commemorate May Day in Cairo Wednesday, calling for minimum-wage reform and the right to unionize.
What I Leave Out: Confessions of a Resume Liar
I have two resumes. One of them states that I graduated from high school and learned how to drive a truck, work dispatch for deliveries, lead a work crew, and show up places on time. The other reveals that I am a published scholar with a Master’s...
What the Czech Play That Coined the Term 'Robot' Tells Us About Today's Robonomics
Playwright Karel Capek was going to call the artificial workers in his play "Labori," but his brother suggested “robots,” instead. It’s not surprising then, that the robots in 'Rossum's Universal Robots' feel like a pretty thinly-veiled metaphor.
I Punched My Boss in the Face
At first the feeling was euphoric. After years of taking crap from a bunch of losers because they were my bosses, I thought I had no other choice. This time I felt like I had finally stood up for myself in a meaningful way. But even before my knuckles...
Smart Drugs and Cybernetics Are Creating a Superhuman Workforce
Imagine becoming superhuman. Or, at the very least, becoming superhumanly good at your job. Imagine a drug that would give you total focus, total composure, genius-level clarity of thought, and the ability to stay up and in the zone for two days...
Progress and Globalization in Bangladesh: The Tazreen Fashions Garment Factory Fire
The garment trade is at the forefront of the kind of industrial revolution that we are experiencing in Bangladesh today, which is why, if from the outside, we look like some Dickensian hellhole of sweatshops and smokestacks, the image is not altogether...
Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game
In a nation that looks to professional sports for everything that it is missing—heroism, greatness, collective triumph—the spate of labor disputes that continue to rock pro leagues offers some sobering lessons.