workers rights
Some bright spots in 2017
A year after the election, we decided to look for signs of hope. We found them all around us.
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Food justice is about workers
"I paid for college by working at restaurants. That gave me a worm's eye view."
Amy Frykholm interviews Jose Oliva
Working-class Christians
According to Heath Carter, working people have been some of Christianity's most important theological innovators.
Inconvenient solidarity: Religion professors support a hotel boycott
Scholars traveling to Chicago for the joint AAR–SBL meeting will have to make hard decisions—beginning with where to lay their heads.
Issues with the iPad
Apple
unveiled the iPad 3 last week; it's scheduled to be released today. On Sunday
the company announced that pre-ordered devices were sold out.
The news came weeks after Apple's annual shareholders' meeting, at which it reported that it has nearly $100 billion in
cash.
Amid
its latest triumphs, the company continues to face criticism over labor
practices at Foxconn and its other suppliers in China. While such allegations
are not new, recent reports by This
American Life and the New
York Times have raised public awareness of long hours, low
wages, cramped dormitories and hazardous working conditions that have resulted
in deaths and injuries for Chinese employees.