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Kick Against the Pricks
Laura Kipnis reviews “Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back” by Gretchen Carlson.
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Abuse By Bosses Comes In Many Forms
Harassment and abuse are not always sexual, and all psychological harms should be taken seriously… By Nathan J. Robinson.
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The deeply held religious convictions that kickstarted capitalism
BBC Radio 4
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From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over
Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish? By André Spicer.
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Uber’s problem: a culture of dishonesty
There are numerous examples of a deceitful culture at Uber and more examples keep coming out. By Leonid Bershidsky.
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Amazon’s Last Mile
Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it’s plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars, competing for shifts on the company’s own Uber-like platform. Though it’s deployed in dozens of cities and associated with one of the world’s biggest companies, government agencies and customers alike are nearly oblivious to the program’s existence. By Bryan Menegus.
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The Disappearing Right to Earn a Living
Want to become a florist in Louisiana? A home-entertainment installer in Connecticut? Or a barber anywhere? You’re going to need a license for that—and it’s going to cost you. By Conor Friedersdorf.
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The catalogue that made metrics, and changed science
As new ways emerge to assess research, Alex Csiszar recalls how the first one transformed the practice and place of science in society.
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We Are All Implicated in the Post-Weinstein Reckoning
As stories about abuse, assault, and complicity come flooding out, how do we think about the culprits in our lives? Including, sometimes, ourselves. By Rebecca Traister.
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Life and Death After the Steel Mills
Anthropologist Christine Walley raises questions about how to create and support meaningful work in a postindustrial world. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner
How a transgender Australian found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides, and unimaginable filth of endless variation. By Sarah Krasnostein.
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Universal Basic Income and the Threat of Tyranny
We do not get our rights because we deserve them, or even because we fight for them – we get our rights because the government needs us. By Shai Shapira.
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How to handle worrying work requests
Too often, employees are put in a quandary when asked to do something that makes them uncomfortable, with no right or wrong answer. Here's how to respond in those situations.
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Modern slavery is disturbingly common
Forced labour persists around the world, particularly for domestic workers
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Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon
Dear Bubble App Team Members: Good news! In response to your “concerns” about our current open-plan creative campus, we are pleased to announce... By Alex Baia.
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Women Aren’t Nags—We’re Just Fed Up
Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand. By Gemma Hartley.
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I went undercover in a Toronto factory where a temp worker died. Here’s what I found
More Ontarians are using temp agencies to find work — and these workers are more likely to get hurt on the job. A Toronto Star undercover investigation. By Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Brendan Kennedy. (Sept. 8, 2017)
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Can Only Rich Kids Afford to Work in the Art World?
Young people in the art world are disproportionately likely to get financial help from their parents. Can only rich kids afford careers in the arts? By Anna Louie Sussman. (Feb. 14, 2017)
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How workers ended up in cubes—and how they could break free
Propst believed, would be to join the panels at 120º angles. But his customers realised that they could squeeze more people in if they constructed cubes. A rigid 90º connector was therefore designed to join a panel to one, two or three more. Thus was born the cubicle, and Propst came to be known as its creator. He was horrified.
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The day that destroyed the [U.S.] working class and sowed the seeds of Trump
Forty years ago, on Sept. 19, thousands of men walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River before the early shift... By Salena Zito.
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