Workers say now is the time to do the impossible.

It’s making its anti-union stance clear.

Discussing pay constitutes protected activity.

The latest rejection of the tentative agreement by workers is the third to be voted down since April.

The new controversy centers on Amazon deleting the profiles of hundreds of thousands of entry-level warehouse employees.

A report says China has moved minority Muslims into factory jobs, where their freedom is restricted.

Workers at Loyola Marymount University are in a contract dispute, and all seven candidates who qualified for the debate said Friday that they would not cross a picket line to attend.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person.

Sex Workers Rally for Reform. By Molly Crabapple.

A union can work in this business, and other industries have proven it. By Tim Colwill.

The term has become a central part of an important conversation about the division of household work. But the sociologist who coined it says it’s being used incorrectly. By Julie Beck, with Arlie Hochschild.

“Think of her as your mother.” By Gillian A Frank, Lauren Gutterman.

The union representing postal workers has just rejected an offer from Canada Post. It now seems the Crown corporation will head into its busiest time of year mired in a labour dispute.

The Department of Justice says prison labor is good for a company’s bottom line. By Alexia Fernández Campbell.

If workers are pushed hard enough, our history of revolt is not that deeply buried. By Sarah Jaffe.

West Virginia has been the site of mass labor militancy many times before. Here are some of the highlights. By Branko Marcetic.

The philosopher Herbert Marcuse saw machines as our greatest hope for real liberty. But in Trump’s America, automation feels more totalitarian than ever. By David Moscrop.

The first conjugal visits in America took place in 1904 at Parchman Penitentiary, an institution that resembled a slavery-era plantation more than a prison. By Alex Mayyasi.

Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it’s plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars, competing for shifts on the company’s own Uber-like platform. Though it’s deployed in dozens of cities and associated with one of the world’s biggest companies, government agencies and customers alike are nearly oblivious to the program’s existence. By Bryan Menegus.