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Japan’s Disposable Workers: Dumping Ground
Kamagasaki, Osaka, Japan used to be a thriving day laborer’s town. Today, it is home to approximately 25,000 unemployed and elderly men, many of whom are also homeless.Alcoholism, poverty, suicide, Tuberculosis and, most of all, loneliness prevail here. These men don’t have family ties. They live and die as social outcasts from the mainstream “salaryman” culture. (May 19, 2014)
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The Price of Gold
Over a period of 20 days, Thom Pierce travelled around South Africa's Eastern Cape, into Lesotho and up to Johannesburg to find and photograph the miners, and widows, suffering from silicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis as a result of working in the gold mines.
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The plight of young scientists
A special issue explores how the research enterprise keeps early-career scientists from pursuing the most important work, and what can be done to help.
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Elevator Operator
Courtney Barnett
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Rise of the American Mercenary
Thousands of private contractors are in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now they may be in Syria, too. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.
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What's More Distracting Than A Noisy Co-Worker? Turns Out, Not Much
Sounds, particularly those made by other humans, rank as the No. 1 distraction in the workplace. According to workplace design expert Alan Hedge at Cornell, 74 percent of workers say they face "many" instances of disturbances and distractions from noise. "In general, if it's coming from another person, it's much more disturbing than when it's coming from a machine," he says, because, as social beings, humans are attuned to man-made sounds. He says overheard conversations, as well as high-pitched and intermittent noises, also draw attention away from tasks at hand.
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Playing Through the Pain
The Impact of Secrets and Dark Knowledge. By Richard Thieme.
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A Talent for Sloth
Ten years as a lookout on a fire tower requires a particular aptitude for idleness. By Philip Connors.
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Candy
Taking the Wrapper off a Texas Legend. By Gary Cartwright. (Dec. 1976)
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The Next Big Thing: Job Benefits That Go Where You Go
We need to overhaul America’s social safety net, which was designed for a different labor market and economy. By Chris Farrell.
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The Gospel of Consumption
More time at home with the family isn't a bad excuse. By Jeffrey Kaplan.
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Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink
We can’t afford to live lives we have to fool ourselves into tolerating. By Kristi Coulter. (Aug. 21, 2016)
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Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep
"But having lived through the decline of tenure, I can see clearly that universities in which the majority of the faculty feel unsafe in terms of job security become places where no one feels safe to do anything that might risk upsetting someone." By Alice Dreger.
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The Snarling Girl
Notes on—and against—ambition. By Elisa Albert.
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The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job
When Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton College, made a symbolic gesture of support for Muslims, the evangelical college became divided over what intellectual freedom on its campus really meant. By Ruth Graham.
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Superheroes Are Real
They jump out of planes. They fly onto the field of battle. They run, chainsaws in hand, into 20-foot flames against the ultimate opponent: Mother Nature. By Rachel Monroe. [Autoplay]
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In secretive marijuana industry, whispers of abuse and trafficking
For decades, California’s Emerald Triangle has provided cover for the nation’s largest marijuana-growing industry. But its forests also hide secrets... By Shoshana Walter.
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Making Sense of Modern Pornography
While the Internet has made porn ubiquitous, it has also thrown the industry into severe decline. By Katrina Forrester.
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NSFW Powerful Photos Of Life Inside A Bangladesh Brothel
Photojournalist Sandra Hoyn visited Kandapara and documented life inside the brothel with a series of vivid images. They tell the stories of sex workers who come from poor families (often born inside the brothel) and have no freedom or rights.
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The Clean
“'Good pour,' she said when I tipped the bucket of gray water into the toilet." By Lizzie Feidelson.
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