As Labor Day approaches, we should reflect not just on the holiday’s own important history, but also on the much longer fight to protect American workers. W.E.B. DuBois famously described the American ...

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Nearly three-fourths of Gen Z consumers are willing to pay more for products that are environmentally sustainable, according to a poll released in 2020. But would Gen Z and the rest of us be willing ...

WASHINGTON -- International chocolate makers and Democratic members of Congress on Monday announced a four-year plan to end use of child slave labor by cocoa growers and to certify cocoa that is grown ...

A student in my “History of the Present” class asked me, “Do Californians really believe slavery is okay?” She referred to the defeat of California’s Proposition 6, which aimed to remove the so-called ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian Labor Minister Luiz Marinho is carrying out an unusual final review of an investigation that could blacklist a poultry unit of meatpacker JBS SA for subjecting ...

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their ...