The U.S. should use laws, intelligence and advanced analytics to combat forced labor and secure critical mineral supply chains.

In the labor movement, we talk about the “union difference” ― how much better it is to work a union job, versus a non-union one. It’s the wages, the healthcare, the dignity on the job. But the biggest ...

The Census Bureau says the U.S. is on a path to net negative migration.

Amid the push to reshore, the United States faces a clear challenge when it comes to labor. The manufacturing workforce is aging at an alarming rate. Even in the best-case scenario, the U.S. will face ...

Most of the world observes International Workers’ Day on May 1 or the first Monday in May each year, but not the United States and Canada. Instead, Americans and Canadians have celebrated Labor Day as ...

For the last 250 years, our blue-collar men and women have laid the foundations of our country. They’ve paved roads, built bridges and raised the skyscrapers that shape our landscape. Their tireless ...

America's labor market continues to cool, and the gig economy is quietly absorbing some of the employment strain being felt across the country. About 20% of people who lost pay, lost a job, or had ...

For all the talk about a housing shortage, there’s proportionately little attention paid to how the U.S. government is aggravating the situation by kicking out the workers who want to trade and build ...

Community and coalitions. Building a new working-class politics from below / Shelton Stromquist -- Learning from the right: a new operation Dixie? / Bethany Moreton and Pamela Voekel -- Reimagining a ...

Child labor is back. What will we do about it? A dark shadow from America's past is re-emerging. The U.S. Labor Department's shocking revelation of a 37% increase in child labor violations isn't just ...

It took more than a century for Chicago’s Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there. (Photo by Jeffrey Sklansky) In much of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin ...