Labor

Editorial Cartoons | | Labor
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Editorial Cartoons | | Labor, Quality of life, Unions
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Letters to the Editor | | Economy, Employment, Labor
Apr. 16, 2012 — I’m a white, 55 year-old male who lost my last good job in the property/casualty insurance field, effective Jan. 1, 2010, when the client of my third party administrator employer...view
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti | Employment, Labor, Poverty
Apr. 11, 2012 — As observed in recent news coverage, “lawmakers are facing growing pressure to raise the minimum wage, which was last increased at the federal level to $7.25 an hour in July 2009.”...view
Letters to the Editor | | Labor, Pensions
Apr. 5, 2012 — Your story on management costs of public pension funds doesn’t seem to be up to your usual high standard — or at least not yet. The deeper questions are whether the costs of managing...view
Press Criticism | Craig Gurian | Corporate influence, Labor, Pensions, Role of government
Mar. 21, 2012 — “Let us all give thanks to BlackRock, the giant Manhattan-based investment, asset, and risk management firm.” The pitch would have sounded strained if it had come from BlackRock’s...view
Map & Data Resources | Mike Alberti | Economy, Labor
Jan. 25, 2012 — How much of the gains in manufacturing productivity in the period after World War II have redounded to the benefits of workers as reflected in their compensation? Until the early...view
Commentary | Craig Gurian | Economy, Labor
Jan. 25, 2012 —The chilling investigative piece by Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher in Sunday’s New York Times left no doubt about how Apple thinks about manufacturing and jobs, and, by extension,...view
Original Reporting | Mike Alberti | Corporate influence, Globalization, Labor
Jan 18, 2012 — As part of a recent shift to a more populist tone, the Obama Administration last week held a conference at the White House to encourage companies to create jobs in the United States,...view
Letters to the Editor | | Alternative models, Labor
A tale of two systems, in which we contrasted the way that German automakers operate in terms of labor relations in the United States with how they operate in Germany brought a substantial reader...view

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