Maria Jose Carmona

The pressure to work faster and longer is making work more dangerous for diverse jobs, from delivery drivers to home care workers.

There's no fight as committed as the one being waged by older people in Spain to demand fully-funded state pensions.

In Spain, the UK, and elsewhere, residents are working together to improve their neighborhoods while preventing the gentrification that widens economic divides. A four-lane highway separates the Madrid districts of...