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A Just Remedy

Amnesty International calls for $440 million compensation fund for migrant workers ahead of FIFA World Cup 2022

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Full Circle

By redrawing the way we design, build, and “unbuild,” circularity could reduce forced labor in the building industry

protesting architects hit the street demanding fair working conditions
Labor Parti

AIA must do more to address exploitative workplace conditions, some members say

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Breaking

What is going on at SCI-Arc?

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Or Can It?

“Can this be? Surely this cannot be?” explores the history of architecture unionization across the pond

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Accelerating Change

Grace Farms will host the inaugural Design for Freedom Summit on March 31

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Bargaining for Better

Unionization at SHoP Architects stalled out, but architecture’s labor movement is far from over

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Round And Round They Go

Daily digest: L.A. Coliseum becomes a racetrack, Milan will build a web of bicycle highways, and more

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Building Back Better?

Daily digest: The National Building Museum will launch a climate initiative, co-working moves to the suburbs, and more

The restored Pullman Company Town , now a park
Green Labor

The restoration of Chicago’s former Pullman Company Town commemorates a pivotal site of progressive American labor

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The Unaffordability of Free Labor

NCARB reaffirms its opposition to unpaid architecture internships

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Better Buildings, Better Lives

Op-ed: To address human rights in building product supply chains, governments must take the lead

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Wages For Work

Future Architects Front is campaigning to end exploitation of U.K.’s architectural assistants

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An Additional Layer

Grace Farms and Herman Miller launch face masks to support eradicating slavery in the built environment

a labor demonstration for the architecture industry on a street
People Power

In Architecture and Labor, Peggy Deamer recognizes architects are workers

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Shining A Light

Grace Farms launches Design for Freedom initiative to abolish forced labor in the built environment

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Small but Mighty

Toward a cooperative network of small architecture practices

Patrik Schumacher
Workin' 9 to... Whenever

Patrik Schumacher claims limiting work hours could paralyze offices

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