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China’s Labor Movement Faces Incredible Odds

The growing labour movement in China, as fragmented and repressed as it is, offers hope for workers everywhere as an example of organising and protecting themselves against incredible odds.

Independent labour organising and independent trade unions are banned and workers do not have the legal right to strike. But millions of workers have organised autonomously and staged “wildcat”, or unofficial, strikes, with the main union charged with representing Chinese workers either absent or side-lined in recent industrial actions.

Can U.S. Labor Unions Stage a Comeback and Does it Matter?

The US labor movement was once the core institution fighting for average workers. Over the last half century, its ranks decimated. The share of the private sector workforce that is organized has fallen from 35% to approximately 6.5% today.

An expanding body of research demonstrates just what this loss has meant: the growth of economic and political inequality, stalled progress on racial integration and the removal of an established pathway for immigrant populations to assimilate economically.

U.S. Job Openings Soar as Small Businesses Grow Bullish

Job openings continue to grow at a breakneck pace in the United States as the job market continues to repair itself.

Five million job openings were available in the United States in January, the highest number since January 2001. While the figure was a slight increase from December, it was a 28% increase from the same period a year ago.

UK Immigration: The Importance of Context

Immigration continues to be one of the key issues in the build-up to the general election. The latest figures show a net flow of 298,000 into the UK. This is higher than when David Cameron’s government took office, despite his pledge to cut the number to the tens of thousands.

But is this really bad news? Immigration is such an emotive issue that there is a tendency for the figures involved to be bandied about out of context.

Infographic: The Keys To Happiness At Work

Are you happy at your workplace right now? Well, according to a recent survey by City & Guilds, a leading vocational education organisation in the U.K., the most important factor that achieves workplace happiness is when employees feel recognised and appreciated for their work.

Finance Jobs

Overqualified? Yes, but Happy to Have a Job

An overriding complaint among many job seekers, particularly professionals, is how often they are rejected for lower-level positions that they desperately want and believe they could practically do in their sleep.

Hedge Fund Managers’ Pay ROARED Back Last Year

In a startling comeback, top hedge fund managers rode the 2009 stock market rally to record gains, with the highest-paid 25 earning a collective $25.3 billion, beating the old 2007 high by a wide margin …

Economics Jobs, Economist Careers

Economics is a social science covering the production, distribution and consumption of resources. Economics jobs suit those who have a flair for data analysis and problem solving techniques. Depending on the job being sought, transferable skills such as logical reasoning, team work, and knowledge of foreign languages may be just as important as an academic qualification.

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