Temp Workers

Jason Linkins

Reporter Experiences Harrowing Ordeal As Employee Of Online Shipping Warehouse

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, Blue Collar Workers, Online Shipping Warehouse, Poverty, Warehouses, Economy, Amazon Wearhouse, Jobs, Warehouse-Workers, Working Class, Outsourcing, Mac McClelland, Labor, Temp-Workers, Unemployment, Temp Work, Mac Mcclelland Mother Jones, Business News, Media News

Mother Jones reporter and official recipient of the Order Of The Eat The Press Empire knighthood Mac McClelland followed up on the visit she made last...

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Welcome to the Antique Shop Part Three: Will Granular Work Replace the Full-time Work Week?

Liz Ryan | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Careers, Jobs, Workplace, Crowdsourcing, Employment, Granular Work, Temp Workers, Business News
Liz Ryan

Crowdsourcing lets companies piece out work to people who can do it on the buyer's schedule and to the buyer's specifications, and to learn what works for them and which providers work the way they like to work.

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Women Retail Workers Make Less, Get Fewer Benefits Than Men

Alice Hines | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Women Workers, Retail News, Holiday Shopping, Temp-Workers, Unemployment, Gender Discrimination, Retail Workers, Tommy Hilfiger, Living Wage, Business News

In a time when jobs are scarce, retail is one of the few industries hiring -- creating about 500,000 temporary jobs this holiday season, according to ...

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Dave Jamieson

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Blue Collar Workers, Holidays, Walmart, U.S. Economy, Hershey, Poverty, Warehouses, Economy, Jobs, Target, Retail, Labor Unions, Home Depot, Warehouse-Workers, Working Class, Outsourcing, Video, Labor, Temp-Workers, Costco, Temp Work, Retail Sales, Christmas, Slidepollajax, Unions, Business News

JOLIET, Ill., and FONTANA, Calif. -- Like nearly everyone else in Joliet without good job prospects, Uylonda Dickerson eventually found herself at the...

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Dave Jamieson

Workers At Walmart-Contracted Warehouse Claim Wage Theft

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Walmart, Temp-Workers, Labor, Dukes v. Wal-Mart, Class Action Lawsuit, Temp Work, Warehouse-Workers, Business News

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the largest class-action civil-rights lawsuit in American history, and will soon...

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Chicago Area Warehouses Thrive As Low-Paid Temp Workers Struggle

Chicago News Cooperative | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illinois Temp Workers, Warehouse Workers, Labor, Temp Work, Temp Workers, Workers Rights, Chicago News

Tory Moore worked at the same packaged-food warehouse in Kankakee for six years, but he was denied a loan and apartment rentals after being told he di...

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