Pandemic Shock Absorbers: Domestic Workers’ Activism at the Intersection of Immigrants’ and Workers’ Rights

Why Workers’ Rights Are Not Women’s Rights

“Why workers’ rights are not women’s rights” is an argument whose purpose is to make clear why workers’ rights rest on a masculine embodiment of the labor subject and it is this masculine embodiment which is at the center of employment contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor, the paper reveals the opposition ...

Migrant workers' health rights unmet.

Public health and the human rights of sex workers.

I n most countries, sex workers are stigmatised, discriminated against, prosecuted, and harassed. They are often seen as immoral people or as victims of unscrupulous traffickers who exploit the lack of opportunities of deprivileged inhabitants of mostly poor countries. Unfortunately, public health workers and researchers can share these attitudes. However, what should be addressed are the condi...

Reexamining workers' compensation: a human rights perspective.

Injured workers, particularly those with more severe injuries, have long experienced workers' compensation systems as stressful and demeaning, have found it difficult to obtain benefits, and, when able to obtain benefits, have found them inadequate. Moreover, the last two decades have seen a substantial erosion of the protections offered by workers' compensation. State after state has erected a...

Differential Impacts of Immigrants on Native Black and White Workers

This paper examines the differential labor market impacts of immigration on native non-Hispanic white and African American workers across metropolitan areas. Historically, immigrants have played an intriguing and complex role in reinforcing and reproducing racial inequality. For example, imported Chinese labor was used to threaten black labor in the agricultural South in the latter part of the ...