Study of L.A.-area restaurants gauges effect on owners, customers, landlords
Modern-day gender ratios are linked to countries’ agricultural roots
Managing production with the declining potency of a catalyst
How 934 workers around the globe regard their labor; it doesn’t have to be this way
It’s generally a positive in both cultures, but buy-in is more tentative in China
19th-century French cotton mills suggest halting, uneven progress
Caribbean plantation owners, faced with slavery’s end, enacted legal barriers to employment elsewhere
Amid the pandemic, price gouging and stiffing of suppliers and workers surged
Payroll data allows researchers to finally build an accurate and meaningful measurement
With a business model built on fewer employees, their dominance saps dynamism.
Industrial laundry gains 4% output; better health and better feelings toward employer could account for increase
Labor’s losses to capital, much studied, aren’t quite as grim when stock and options are tabulated
New research suggests increased risk of illness and death in middle age, on top of longer-lasting income penalty
Steady employment is rare — a condition some U.S. workers also endure