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October 2009: Decent Work, Living Wages, Volume , Issue
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The Good War and the Workers
Steve Fraser
World War II defense contracts raised labor standards. Government could use the same leverage in peacetime.
Government Paves the Way
Paul Sonn and Annette Bernhardt
A decent work agenda for the Obama administration.
Forgotten Corners of the Economy
Stephen Franklin
As unemployment rises, the illegal treatment of day laborers only worsens. Where's the government?
Which Side Is Government On?
David Moberg
Millions of contract workers whose salaries are ultimately paid by government live in poverty. Uncle Sam should demand high standards, not pay as little as possible.
Good Jobs, Healthy Cities
Peter Dreier
Eight steps city governments can take to promote good jobs.
Stuck on the Low Road
David Bensman
Deregulation turned truck driving from a good job into a bad one.
Now, thanks to local organizing and government action, there's a better road.
Dark and Bitter
Nancy Cleeland
Food workers increasingly exist in a legal limbo with no protections for wages, benefits, job security, or life and limb. Why are employers like Hershey off the hook?
Decent Work
Robert Kuttner
How government can get back on the side of promoting good jobs.
Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers
Annette Bernhardt, Ruth Milkman and Nik Theodore
Rebuilding our economy on the back of illegal working conditions is morally untenable -- and it is bad economics.
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