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.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter writes about ‘hurdles to obtain meager funding or to overcome editors’ reluctance to support the stories’—and offers suggestions.
The lives of Kayayo women living in the "Sodomandgomorrah" city in Ghana.
Peter DiCampo visits the village where many Kayayo women move to the city of Accra from.
Alietu, a teenage village girl from Ghana, has migrated to the south central city of Kumasi and is living in a former ink and chalk factory.
Olga Murray of Sausalito, Calif., has dedicated her life to helping the children of Nepal, and her nonprofit, the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, is hoping to abolish the kamlari tradition.
Agbogblushie is a shantytown in Ghana ridden with poverty and myth surrounding its people.
Olga Murray is fighting for the abolition of the kamlari, or the indentured servants in Nepal.
For the past two decades, Sausalito's Olga Murray has worked to free Nepal's domestic slaves, or kamlaris. The girls are sold by their families to work in the homes of strangers.
Anita Chaudhary, 18, speaks as if all emotion has been kicked out of her. She stares into the distance, her voice is barely a whisper, and her shoulders are slumped forward in defeat.
Bolivian President Evo Morales says he's committed to fighting cocaine production and trafficking in his country. Three years ago, he instituted a drug program called "Coca si, cocaine no." That means it's illegal to make cocaine -- but farmers are allowed to grow the coca plant, the basis of cocaine, for traditional uses such as chewing or making tea.
A henna co-op by Friends of Needy Children is saving Nepali girls from indentured servitude.
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