Migrant Workers

Burmese migrant workers peel shrimp at a processing factory in Thailand's Samut Sakhon province.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Eli Friedman

The New York Times’ coverage of the poor conditions laborers at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus are struggling with is important, but the problem is not unique to one area. A Nepal expert offers some critical context.

• By Sienna Craig

Today’s blue-collar temp laborers face abuses similar to those of migrant farmworkers depicted in the iconic 1960 CBS documentary Harvest of Shame.

• By Michael Grabell