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Module: The Laborer

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Tarver-Wahlquist, S. (n.d.). Does made in the USA mean not in a sweatshop?. Green America.  Access https://www.greenamerica.org/fair-labor-home/does-made-usa-mean-not-sweatshop

2024

Fortinsky, Sarah. (2024, January 4). 2023 marked most active labor dispute year in more than two decades: Pew analysis. The Hill. https://thehill.com/business/4390212-2023-marked-most-active-labor-dispute-year-in-more-than-two-decades-pew-analysis/  

2023

Cazes, S., & Garnero, A. (2023, August 8). Minimum wages in times of high inflation. CEPR. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/minimum-wages-times-high-inflation

Dreier, H. (2023). Alone and exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.  Accessed https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html

Stubbs, I. (2023). Labor Unions & Capitalism. Access https://www.law.georgetown.edu/denny-center/blog/labor-unions-capitalism/

2022

International Labour Organization. (2022). 50 million people worldwide in modern slavery. Access https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/50-million-people-worldwide-modern-slavery-0

Sanyal, Sanjeev. “A Brief History of Cheap Labor.” The Globalist, 8 June 2022, www.theglobalist.com/a-brief-history-of-cheap-labor./

Solman, P., & Koromvokis, L. (2022). Why corporations are reaping record profits with inflation on the rise. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-corporations-are-reaping-record-profits-with-inflation-on-the-rise

2021

Bellani, L., Bledow, N., Busemeyer, M. R., & Schwerdt, G. (2021). When everyone thinks they’re middle-class : (Mis-) Perceptions of inequality and why they matter for social policy. Access https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/c83e2e52-6b57-400b-a00d-2ee8ceb8f61f/content

Whittaker, A. (2021). The Effects of Racial Capitalism on Poor White Laborers. Access https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=malsfe

2020

Lu, E (2020).  Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the lives of Chinese workers. Accessed https://labornotes.org/blogs/2020/09/review-dying-iphone-apple-foxconn-and-lives-chinas-workers

Meagher. S. (2020). The Not-so-Hidden Ethical Cost of Fast Fashion; Sneaky Sweatshops in Our Own Backyards. https://www.forbes.com/sites/syamameagher/2020/02/05/the-not-so-hidden-ethical-cost-of-fast-fashion-sneaky-sweatshops-in-our-own-backyard/#23c1c26f25d1

2019

Coates, K and Fernandez, V. (2019). The Young Hands that Feed Us. Accessed https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-young-hands-that-feed-us

2018

National Farm Worker Ministry.(2018) Children in the Fields. Accessed http://nfwm.org/farm-workers/farm-worker-issues/children-in-the-fields/

Tillman, C., Gonzalez, K., Whitman, M., Crawford, W., and Hood, A. (2018). A Multi-Functional View of Moral Disengagement: Exploring the Effects of Learning the Consequences. Access https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02286/full

Wurth, M (2018). More US Child Workers Die in Agriculture that in Any Other Industry. Accessed https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/12/04/more-us-child-workers-die-agriculture-any-other-industry

2017

Empson, M. (2017). Nature, Labor, and the Rise of Capitalism. Access https://monthlyreview.org/articles/nature-labor-and-the-rise-of-capitalism/

Green American (2017). U.S. Companies Exploiting Workers. Accessed https://www.greenamerica.org/choose-fair-labor/us-companies-exploiting-workers

2013

Georgetown University. (2013, June 28). Consumers Think Sweatshops OK If ‘Shoes Are Cute,’ Research Reveals. Georgetown University. Retrieved February 11, 2024, from https://www.georgetown.edu/news/consumers-think-sweatshops-ok-if-shoes-are-cute-research-reveals/

Wilson, D. (2013). Who Really Benefits from Sweatshops? https://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/09/19/really-benefits-sweatshops/

2012

Labor and Working Class History Association. (2012). A Dialogue on History of Capitalism vs Labor History. Access https://lawcha.org/2012/12/16/a-dialogue-on-history-of-capitalism-vs-labor-history/

2005

Gordon, J. (2005). Class and Inequality: American Sweatshops.  http://bostonreview.net/gordon-american-sweatshops

1999

Bandura, A. (1999). Moral disengagement in the perpetration of Inhumanities. Personality and Social Psychology Review3(3), 193–209. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0303_3