Workers and Poverty Research


Picked Apart: The Hidden Struggles of Migrant Worker Women in the Maryland Crab Industry (pdf)
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante and American University Washington College of Law, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Summer 2010

Fields of Peril: Child Labor in US Agriculture (pdf)
Zama Coursen-Neff, Human Rights Watch, May 2010

Just Pay: Improving Wage and Hour Enforcement at the United States Department of Labor (pdf)
National Employment Law Project for the Just Pay Working Group, April 2010

Wage Theft and Workplace Violations in Los Angeles: The Failure of Employment and Labor Law for Low-Wage Workers (pdf)
Ruth Milkman, Ana Luz Gonzalez and Victor Narro, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Los Angeles, January 2010

Working Without Laws: A Survey of Employment and Labor Law Violations in New York City (pdf)
Annette Bernhardt, Diana Polson and James DeFilippis, National Employment Law Project, January 2010

United States: The Employee Free Choice Act, A Human Rights Imperative
Human Rights Watch, January 2010

Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers
John Schmitt, Hye Jin Rho and Nicole Woo, Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2010

The Unions of the States
John Schmitt, Center for Economic and Policy Research, November 2008

The Haves and Have-Nots: How American Labor Law Denies a Quarter of the Workforce Collective Bargaining Rights
American Rights at Work, November 2008

Why Unions Matter (pdf)
Interfaith Worker Justice, October 2008

Congressional Testimony -- Department of Labor: Case Studies from Ongoing Work Show Examples in Which Wage and Hour Division Did Not Adequately Pursue Labor Violations
Gregory Kutz, Government Accountability Office, July 2008

Congressional Testimony -- Fair Labor Standards Act: Better Use of Available Resources and Consistent Reporting Could Improve Compliance (pdf)
Anne-Marie Lasowski, Government Accountability Office, July 2008

Facts and Figures on Florida Farmworkers (pdf)
Coalition of Immokalee Workers, 2007

The National Agricultural Workers Survey
U.S. Department of Labor, 2006

Modern Day Slavery in U.S. Agriculture: Legal Failure and Corporate Complicity (pdf)
National Economic & Social Rights Initiative, September 2005

Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers
Lee Tucker, Human Rights Watch, January 2000

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