Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Employment'
In Search of the American Dream: Interview with Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes
by Sarah McGowan - USA - If you’re one of the millions of Americans affected by the credit crunch – unemployed, uninsured and unsure of your future, or working yourself to death just to live - Shannon Hayes’ book Radical...
TEKEL Workers Stage Turkey’s Largest Protest in 30 Years
by Emel Baştürk Akca - Turkey - Once one of Turkey’s biggest public producers of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, TEKEL has outlets and factories all over the country. But ever since the Turkish giant opted for privatization and terminated...
India Sets Its Sights on Higher Education
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Education remains an emotional subject in a poor and developing country like India, where it is seen as the primary means for social and economic mobility. Indian families are known to sell land and...
20 Years Later, Germany Struggles with “Annexation, not unification”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany - They were East Germany’s dream couple in the eighties. But shortly after the fall of the Wall, which divided East and West Germany from 1961 until 1989, a scandal would taint the image...
Gender Parity Report Finds Zambia’s Media Houses Lagging
by Delphine Zulu - Zambia - One of the key challenges facing Zambian female journalists is sexual harassment. “There are very few female Zambian journalists who have not experienced sexual harassment at the hands of male counterparts, [but] few [cases]...
Workplace ”Mobbing”: EU Integration Pushes Macedonian Labor Law to the Surface
by Natasha Dokovska - Macedonia - "I have 15 years seniority over the human resources officer and the highest level of education. Eight years ago, I was the head of the department, but in the last two years I have...
Hit or Miss: Bangladesh’s Migrant Workers Seek Financial Security Abroad
by Stine Eckert - USA - When the Malaysian government expelled Bangladeshi migrant workers from the country in 1998 because it needed jobs for its own people, 32-year old Sheikh Rumana was one of them – after having worked under...
The Great Divide: Boomers and Millenials Confront the Recession
by Melissa Hahn - USA - “I just thought our life would be different.” My mother Deborah Cruze is reflecting on the devastation this recession has wrought on her generation. In her view, the rules of the game changed when...
The First Shift: Domestic Workers Deserve Basic Rights
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - In Demark, despite strict immigration laws, it isn’t uncommon to see large groups of young Filipina women congregating on train station platforms or giggling together in public. In Copenhagen, state-sanctioned domestic workers are often...
"Fat Activists" Seek Law Banning Weight Discrimination
by Mridu Khullar - India / USA - In December 2008, Binghamton, New York, became one of just six cities in the United States to enact laws protecting against weight discrimination. The others are San Francisco and Santa Cruz (California),...
Sustainable Civic Spaces: Finding Community at the Library
by Melissa Hahn - USA - “They start arriving an hour before we open, and by the time we unlock the doors at 9 am there is a crowd of people waiting to get in. Within seconds, all of the...
Cultural Challenges and Personal Sacrifices: Is the Journey Worth it for Hispanic Women in Hi-Tech?
by Lisa C. Kaczmarczyk - USA - Talking to my friend Nevada Flores* about her decision to leave her comfortable engineering job reminded me of one of our scary trips into the Cuyamaca Mountains outside San Diego. An avid hiker,...
More Internet Equals More Jobs: Reviving the Economy with Broadband
by Megan Tady - USA - Connie Toops would be content photographing birds all day long. In fact, she’s made a business of it, working as a professional freelance nature photographer. Her office could be her backyard – she moved...
Alberta’s Government Fills the Province’s Labor Force Shortage with Temporary Foreign Workers
by Jasmin So-Armada - Canada - Walk into a convenience store, coffee shop or supermarket in Calgary and chances are you’ll be waited on by a temporary foreign worker (TFW). Though they come from many countries, they share one story:...
Kashmir's Tourism Suffers When Conflict Erupts
by Kulsoom Nizamuddin - Indian-administered Kashmir - - In a continuing cycle of conflict, fresh violence broke out this week in Kashmir, heightening tensions and confining everyone to their homes as a blanket curfew was put into effect in Srinagar....
The Hard Truth Behind Asia's Health Care Worker Exodus
by Imelda V. Abaño - The Philippines - For decades, the Philippines, one of the poorest countries in Asia, has provided skilled medical professionals primarily to wealthy places such as the United States, Europe and the Middle East. But as...
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