The Kenyan government must look for ways to combine emigration with labour protections.
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Moto-taxi drivers remain informal workers in an unprotected labour market, while companies chase profits.
It’s part of a global trend towards longer hours as wages can’t keep pace with inflation.
Canadian universities must take action to ensure decent work for garment factory workers who make their students’ hoodies. They can do this by affiliating with the Worker Rights Consortium.
The Air Canada dispute may mark a turning point for labour standards in the airline industry and result in unpaid ground time being a thing of the past.
The federal government’s reliance on Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to end strikes undermines collective bargaining and may violate workers’ constitutional right to strike.
A new book revisits her life, work and ideas and shows how relevant they still are today.
There is a need to create regional or continent-wide regulatory frameworks for protection of African gig workers.
Like their predecessors in the 19th century, digital Luddites are fighting oppressive technology. Will they succeed?
Sociologist Tom Vickers tells what happened – and how Amazon reacted – when workers won a vote on official recognition in Coventry. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Data labellers are the lifeblood of the AI industry. Yet they are often paid very low wages, work in unsafe environments and lack basic workplace protections.
After decades of inflation and wage stagnation have eroded wages for workers, the upcoming wage hikes represent progress. But workers certainly deserve more than that.
In a world dominated by fast fashion, building a slower wardrobe is the key to living more sustainably, saving money and standing out among the crowd.
No video game workers are currently unionized in Québec, but a new labour partnership is looking to change that.
Domestic workers in Jamaica often experience low pay, poor working conditions and informal work arrangements. Here’s how unionization could change their situation.
Paid domestic work has a low status in South Africa. The labour of domestic workers is often undervalued and unrecognised.
Any policy interventions from Creative Australia to support visual and craft artists’ incomes will need to take a sector-wide approach.
The idea of embedding robust labour obligations in the Kenya-US agreement is highly controversial.
Aboriginal people in 1951 framed cultural practice as labour and as a tool for advocacy for Aboriginal rights stretching across the continent.
Reagan is the only union leader to serve as US President. Paradoxically, he was also one of the most aggressively anti-union presidents of the 20th century.
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