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A person’s labor is deeply intertwined with their economic status, quality of life and access to basic resources like food and clothing. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Labor” feature reporting that covers the rights of workers, efforts to organize labor unions and worker advocacy groups, modern slavery, and other forms of worker exploitation. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on labor.

 

June 13, 2016 | The Fern

Q&A: How a Soybean Boom Threatens the Amazon

Dan Grossman

Philip Fearnside, a biologist who studies the relationship between human activities, such as agriculture, and the protection of tropical forests, says that soy production threatens the Amazon forest.

June 08, 2016 | Pulitzer Center

Inside Recycling Smelters on Java

Larry C. Price

Larry Price offers a rare glimpse inside recycling smelters on the island of Java in Indonesia where operators smelt lead from used batteries with little regard for environmental regulations.

May 24, 2016 | National Geographic

The Toxic Toll of Indonesia's Gold Mines

Richard C. Paddock. Images by Larry Price.

Mercury waste from small-scale gold mining contaminates air, water and food to sicken and kill. In a series on global pollution, we look at mercury's deadly toll, especially on the young.