for women, a contradictory peace in colombia

Mining booms in Latin America are correlated with a rise in HIV/AIDS, sex work, growing precariousness of women’s labor, birth defects, and the violent enforcement of traditional gender roles, often carried out with paramilitary assistance. ..

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will there be any justice for john crawford?

The activists trained in the Black Lives Matter Movement were at the frontlines in Standing Rock; have been integral to the ongoing recomposition of the labor movement; and have drawn ties between the oppression of Black people here and U.S. imperialist practice in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the..

articles from working in these times

Over the last few decades, number of American workers have lost many of their labor rights because of the way their bosses structure the employment relationship... ... Last week, case was filed in federal court Pennsylvania that may mark another major front in National Right to Work Legal Defense..

the politics of political economists

.… Surveys like Charles Booth's Life and Labor of the People in London revealed conditions which shocked public opinion in the late eighties and nineties. ... Ford Hinrichs, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on the latter's request for increased appropriations. ..

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