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Mother for Hire
Emma moved from the Philippines to New York to make a living as a nanny for other people’s children—and hasn’t seen her own in sixteen years. By Rachel Aviv.
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Dave Morton Is Quitting Everest. Maybe. (It's Complicated)
After two years of unimaginable tragedy, everyone from outfitters and Sherpas to would-be climbers and the Nepalese government is questioning the future of commercial mountaineering. And then there’s David Morton, a veteran guide who spent the past year asking: What happens when you try to leave the world’s most lucrative mountain forever? By Abe Streep.
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Etsy’s Dream of a Shiny, Post-Capitalist (and Post-Profit) Workplace
The company wants to crochet its cake and eat it too. By Amy Larocca.
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Why Are Voters Angry? It’s the 1099 Economy, Stupid
But none of the presidential candidates is offering a solution for the growing millions of independent contractors without social safety nets. By David Dayen.
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Why are theoreticians filled with wanderlust?
A large tin holding dozens of keys sits in the office of the [CERN] Theory Secretariat. Each one unlocks a stay on a Theory corridor. Nanie Perrin hands them out, and collects them back, in a constant game of musical chairs - or rather, musical offices. On the Secretariat’s board (the only whiteboard in the corridor), departures are listed in red, arrivals in green.. By Corinne Pralavorio.
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Will minimum wage hikes lead to a huge boost in automation? Only if we're lucky.
As states like California and cities like Seattle boost their minimum wages up to $15 an hour, critics warn that job losses will be inevitable. In particular, one major line of criticism from outlets like the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Forbes's Tim Worstall is that big increases in pay floors only lead to job loss via automation. Both critics point to initiatives at McDonald's and Wendy's to automate more of the service process, and warn that robots, rather than workers...
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Before You Judge Lazy Workers, Consider They Might Serve A Purpose
Most people have a colleague or two who don't seem to do much work at work. They're in the break room watching March Madness, or they disappear for a two-hour coffee break. For Allison Lamb, that person is her cubicle mate. Lamb is a statistical clerk for a company in Fishers, Ind., who says she likes her job and has a good work ethic. So it irritates her to see her cubicle mate ignoring her duties, disappearing with her friends and keeping...
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With ‘Gigs’ Instead of Jobs, Workers Bear New Burdens
Employment growth in the past decade has been in contract and temporary jobs. As a result, employers have shifted much of the burden of providing social insurance onto workers.
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5 Practical Reasons Why You Should Sign Up For Work At Home Jobs
Finding a job and keeping it isn’t easy. Thus, I am urged to convince you to sign up for work at home jobs due to five simple but practical reasons.
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Winter in the Hamptons: food pantries, poverty and homelessness
The seaside towns at the east end of Long Island, New York, are playgrounds for the rich in summer, but off-season life for permanent residents can be a struggle. By Rupert Neate.
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Spun
The sweet, sad song of a wild child and a forgotten samurai who lost themselves, found each other, got better, got worse, rescued a neighborhood, saved the girl who wouldn’t smile—and finally found peace. By Steve Friedman. (May ’15)
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Is Prostitution Just Another Job?
Many sex workers think their work should be as legal as accounting. And American society is closer than ever to agreeing with them. By Mac McClelland.
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The Rest Is Advertising
Confessions of a sponsored content writer. By Jacob Silverman.
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Secrets of a Secret Agent
Jason Matthews was a CIA spy for more than 30 years during the height of the Cold War, from Asia to the Caribbean to the Soviet Union. Now he's got a new assignment: writing deadly accurate thrillers. By Josh Eells.
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How To Tell When Someone Is Lying On A Resume
Over the past two weeks, all of these things have happened to me: A hiring manager told me that occasionally he gets people who look great on paper, interview well, yet cannot do the work at all. He wanted a waiver on his contract, that if the person is let go within two weeks, they...
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Recycling People
How do we recycle the people whose careers technology displaces?
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The 6 Most Unique Co-Working Spaces in the World
Why work in a coffee shop when you can freelance while traveling the world?
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Early in the Mornin’
Recorded at Parchman Farm, Mississippi State Penitentiary by Alan Lomax c. 1947-1948
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The Deactivation of the American Worker
From factories to cubicles to open offices to Slack channels. By Carter Maness.
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MFA vs. CIA
A writer considers an alternate life as an undercover agent. By Jennifer duBois.
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