Working Life

While a bunch of elected "leaders" engage in a childish game of theater (reading the Constitution), while we flush down the toilet trillions of dollars in wealth on immoral wars, while one half of the working class is being turned against the other half and unions are being blamed for ills created by the incompetent, […]

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Along the road of the past 30 years, productivity has been soaring (and technology has been a minor part of that) while wages have been flat–thanks to de-unionization and a simple corporate decision to cut wages even when profitable. And, despite that assault on wages, the main line of concern was over outsourcing–that is, jobs […]

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This is a fact of life: a large number of people in the world enjoy all sorts of luxuries because of the horrendous conditions that tens of millions of workers endure–slave wages, dangerous workplaces and physically-abusive employers. This is a small slice of that fact–and you can do something about it.   The National Labor […]

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    Yesterday, I mentioned that Wal-Mart will never give up its power to shape the country to its own maniacal and destructive vision (that would be a country where people flood Wal-Mart because its prices are low and that’s the only place people can afford to shop since they can’t make enough money on Wal-Mart-like […]

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    Yesterday, I mentioned that Wal-Mart will never give up its power to shape the country to its own maniacal and destructive vision (that would be a country where people flood Wal-Mart because its prices are low and that’s the only place people can afford to shop since they can’t make enough money on Wal-Mart-like […]

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    It’s been a while since I checked in on the Beast of Bentonville. Turns out that the Beast is not getting a lot of love half way across the world in India. Forbes magazine reports that: Brand recognition isn’t always fun, as retailing giant Wal-Mart is finding out in India. Days after it signed […]

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Welcome to the age of Remote Control Journalism—that’s what Pete Szekely, who is the chairman of the Reuters unit of the Newspaper Guild, calls the news we’re going to get from sources like Reuters. I ran into Pete yesterday. He reminded me of an important development that’s worth updating: Reuters is moving a number of […]

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