Where Did International Women’s Day Come From?
Today, the world honors advancements for women’s rights—and it all started with a courageous group of garment workers.
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Why Unions Are Going Into the Co-op Business
The steelworkers deal that could turn the rust belt green.
How Workers Laid Off from a Chicago Factory Took It Over Themselves
When their boss tried to fire them, the workers of Republic Windows and Doors occupied the factory. Now they own it as a cooperative.
Behind the Kitchen Door: A Must-Read for Anyone Who Eats at Restaurants
Review: More than half of the nation’s worst-paid jobs are related to food. Saru Jayaraman’s new book dives into the explosive movement for better rights for those who plant, process, and cook the food we eat.
Filmmakers: Cooperative Businesses Bring Democracy to the Workplace
In their new film, Shift Change, filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin take viewers on a worldwind tour of the cooperative economy.
What’s Cheaper than Solar, Slashes Carbon Emissions, and Creates Jobs in Kentucky?
Having an energy-efficient home saves the owners money, but they often procrastinate on improvements. When energy companies in Kansas and Kentucky figured out a way to sweeten the deal, the results brought good news for homeowners, contractors, and for the planet.
Human Trafficking Awareness Day: Let’s Take a Stand for Domestic Workers
150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, it's time to recognize domestic labor as real work that should be protected.
Henry Red Cloud: Solar Warrior for Native America
Bringing renewable energy and jobs to reservations.
Ai-jen Poo: Organizing Labor—With Love
Battling for those on the economic bottom rung—domestic workers.
Boomers a (Labor) Force for Social Change
Boomers discover ways to apply their skills and life experience to purposeful second careers.
Less is More: 5 Steps to Redefine Making a Living
Life out of balance? Ask yourself these questions.
Who’s Building the Do-It-Ourselves Economy?
Corporations aren’t hiring, and Washington is gridlocked. Here’s how we take charge of our own livelihoods.
Work Less, Live More
Working fewer hours could help save our economy, our sanity, and the planet.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Economics
Busting 3 big myths about jobs today.
Want Jobs? Rebuild the Dream
Van Jones is leading a national mobilization to rebuild the middle class—through decent work, fair taxes, and opportunities for all.
Ex-Convicts’ Self-Help to Break the Prison Cycle
Ex-cons show each other the way out at San Francisco's Delancey Street.
United by Hard Times: Workers Organize Across Race Lines
A tough economy makes cross-race organizing more important than ever.
Van Jones: Beyond the Politics of Confrontation
Meet the man who’s convincing the country, and the new President, that the next economy needs to be green and just. Interview by Sarah van Gelder.
7 Cool Companies
7 of the best current models for changing who owns, controls and benefits from business. Profits can flow to workers, consumers or the community - not just outside investors. And these businesses succeed.
Horizontalidad: Where Everyone Leads
Horizontalidad: bringing direct democracy to Argentina's citizens while reducing unemployment and stimulating worker involvement.
Green-Collar Jobs for Urban America
Oakland discovers that green-collar jobs can revitalize its economy and sets out on the path to becoming a 'global green city.'
Two Crises, One Solution
We face devastation of the natural world and violence in human communities. There's a way to solve both these crises. A reverence movement would anchor a different economics, a restorative economics. Working with nature, we can create wealth sustainably and spread it more equitably. Solution-based, investment-driven environmentalism.
Second Chance For Black Farmers
A recent class-action suit by black farmers against the USDA fails to stem the loss of land by African American farmers.
Why Work?
Bob Black, Why Work? Examines the stultifying impact of work and jobs and advocates the abolition of most production and the tranformation of work to play.
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