It's about time. A bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez to give employee rights and benefits to professional sports cheerleaders passed its first committee in Sacramento this week. Gonzalez, a former.
On March 22, 1914, Mary "Mother" Jones was arrested on a train in southern Colorado for her work in fighting for the coal miners on strike that area. This was.
On March 10, 1925, the New York Times first reported the story of the so-called Radium Girls, as U.S. Radium Company employee Marguerite Carlough had sued her employer for $75,000.
On February 24, 1908, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Muller v. Oregon. This landmark decision upheld the idea that, at least for women, laws restricting the hours of.
Victoria Vanoch's history of flight attendants and beauty is a highly readable and enjoyable history of one of the most unique sets of workers in the twentieth century United States..
This is why unionizing Walmart is so important and why just ballot measures for the minimum wage isn't enough to improve the lives of workers. Unions are about dignity and.
Hobby Lobby puts its pro-life, pro-child policies into practice: When a very pregnant Felicia Allen applied for medical leave from her job at Hobby Lobby three years ago, one might.
Kathleen Geier, Sarah Jaffe, and Sheila Bapat have a great discussion of how the Hobby Lobby and Harris decisions conspire to undermine women's economic security. You should definitely read the.
