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)

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.

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.

A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely. By Stephen Johnson.

Having open-source programming chops or Linux sysadmin skills is only the start.

Dice and The Linux Foundation's 2017 Open Source Jobs Report reveals Linux and open-source jobs are hotter than ever.

People working in low paying, unstable jobs show more signs of chronic stress than their counterparts who remain unemployed. For the unemployed, finding a job can be a path to improved mental health, but only if it’s a good one, a recent study finds. Researchers tracked 116 British adults who were unemployed in 2009-2010. Those who found good jobs enjoyed improved mental health outcomes, while those who found jobs that were stressful, poorly paid, or unstable saw no improvement.

Tips on timing, psychology and breaks from authors who finish multiple books per year.

How a couple of robots came to be the newest hires at a Wisconsin factory in search of reliable workers.

If you work in advertising, you know what it's like when a bad client comes along. Thankfully, the staff of Coplex (formerly Ciplex) have been observing a variety of clients in their native habitats for some time now, and they've come up with a handy field guide on how to approach this temperamental species.

If you want to understand why Americans work too much, you should. Studies regularly find that Americans are among the most overworked peoples in the industrialized world. A survey by Staples in 2015 discovered that more than half of all Americans (53 percent) are burned out and overworked, while another study found that the average European works 19 percent less than the average American. Despite these trends, however,Americans continue to retire later and reduce their vacation time.

The Tarahumara of northern Mexico became famous for their ability to run incredibly long distances. Now, they’re running for their lives. By Ryan Goldberg.

When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit. By Ilana Gershon.

The visible and invisible social inequalities in the new China built by migrant workers. By Peter Bengtsen. (June 19, 2017)

Historically, it is very odd for business people - or indeed anyone with an executive role – to spend much of their day attending to the needs of their own children. People weren’t heartless, they just didn’t think that it was particularly good for children to spend a lot of time with their pa

Ten years after INS raids upended Latinos' lives in small meatpacking towns across the Midwest, the jobs didn't go to native Nebraskans. Most went to the next immigrants – many from Somalia. By Nigel Duara.

Don’t console yourself for a minute that in electing a fellow plutocrat, our side won. President Trump isn’t on any side but his own. By Nick Hanauer.

Corporations want to make sure that laborers never again have the power to tell big business how to treat them. Indentured servitude is back in a big way in the United States, and conservative corporatists want to make sure that labor never, ever again has the power to tell big business how to treat them. By Thom Hartmann.

Yak Shaving is: doing seemingly-unrelated tasks to get some real task done.

At the autonomous driving startup Starsky Robotics, the present and future of U.S. employment ride in the same cab. By Max Chafkin and Josh Eidelson.