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Today in labor history: The Pemberton Mill disaster

January 10, 2014 By Special to People’s World

In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children.

Mexico after 20 years of NAFTA: poor and getting poorer

January 6, 2014 By Emile Schepers

20 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement came into force, farmers and workers in Mexico, the U.S., and Canada suffer from corporate profiteering.

Is this what for-profit health care looks like?

January 6, 2014 By Michael Adam Reale

The movement to hold California-based Prime Healthcare Services accountable grows.

Today in labor history: Employee time clock invented

November 20, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1888, the employee time clock was invented by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, N.Y. Bundy's brother Harlow started mass producing them a year later.

Reader voices: Even for hospital workers, health care is a problem

November 19, 2013 By Michelle Gonzalez

As a health care professional, taking care of people and helping them comes from my heart and soul. It is what I love to do and truly feel what I was called to do with my...