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The Work You Do, the Person You Are
The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed. By Toni Morrison.
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The Chinese Factory Workers Who Write Poems on Their Phones
“An unprecedented opportunity in the history of working class literature.” By Megan Walsh. (May 1, 2017)
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Chasing the Harvest: ‘If You Want to Die, Stay at the Ranch’
In this oral history, a former sheepherder describes the loneliness and medical hardship he experienced while tending sheep in California’s Central Valley. By Heraclio Astete, with journalist Gabriel Thompson.
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Alone on the Open Road: Truckers Feel Like ‘Throwaway People’
President Trump ignited a national discussion of blue-collar jobs. Truck driving, once a road to the middle class, is now low-paying, grinding, unhealthy work. We talked with drivers about why they do it. By “Trip Gabriel.
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My Adventures With the Accountants of Germany
On freelancing and paying taxes in Berlin. By Vanessa Ellingham.
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A Jobless Utopia?
A rural town in Spain gives us a glimpse into the challenges we will face in a workless future. By David Mcdermott Hughes.
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The good daughter
The truth is I don’t want to be a full-time carer, any more than I wanted to be a full-time mother. And I don’t want to live with my ma any more than she wants to live with me. By Janice Turner.
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How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory
Human capital theory was invented as an ideological weapon in the Cold War. Now it is helping to Uberise the world of work. By Peter Fleming.
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Employers steal billions from workers’ paychecks each year
Survey data show millions of workers are paid less than the minimum wage, at significant cost to taxpayers and state economies. By David Cooper and Teresa Kroeger.
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It took a century to create the weekend—and only a decade to undo it
Weekends are a lie created by capitalism. We made up the weekend the same way we made up the week. The earth actually does rotate around the sun once a year, taking about 365.25 days. The sun truly rises and sets over twenty-four hours. But the week is man-made, arbitrary, a substance not found in nature. That seven-day cycle in which we mark our meetings, mind birthdays, and overstuff our iCals—buffered on both ends by those promise-filled 48 hours of freedom—only holds us in place because we invented it.
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The Parts of America Most Susceptible to Automation
No, they’re not in the Rust Belt. By Alana Semuels.
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The IT worker bucket list
What are tech workers' heart's desires? Consider how many of them you could implement in your shop, and make the staff's dreams come true.
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The Caviar of the Desert
In the highlands of Mexico, farmers harvest ant larvae that will end up in some of the nation’s most exclusive restaurants. By Marcela Zendejas and Mauricio Palos.
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This is not a story about a man who walks to work
It’s about the living wage in America. By Adrianne Jeffries.
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Why young men queue up to die in the French Foreign Legion
His cap is bleached as white as the bones of a Saharan camel. Is the romance of the French Foreign Legion a cult of death? By Robert Twigger.
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The Biggest Employer in Each US State
Wal-Mart is Everywhere--and that's profoundly depressing.
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Being a woman in programming in the Soviet Union
By Vicki Boykis’ mom.
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Companies start implanting microchips into workers’ bodies
At Swedish start-up hub Epicenter, workers can get implanted with microchips that function as swipe cards: to open doors, operate printers, or buy smoothies with a wave of the hand.
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True cost of Philippines gold-mining: Poverty-stricken workers risk health for precious metal
Miners sift through hundreds of kilos of sand and clay, gathering roughly a quarter of a gram of gold dust. By Alex Wheeler.
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Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the world’s most expensive cities?
Politicians and economists lament that certain alpha regions -- SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris -- attract all the best jobs while becoming..
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