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Why Wages Won't Rise
Jobs are coming back, but pay isn’t. The median wage is still below where it was before the Great Recession. Last month, average pay actually fell. What’s going on? It used to be that as unemployment...
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Why We're All Becoming Independent Contractors
GM is worth around $60 billion, and has over 200,000 employees. Its front-line workers earn from $19 to $28.50 an hour, with benefits. Uber is estimated to be worth some $40 billion, and has 850 employees. Uber has over 163,000 drivers, who average $17 an hour in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and $23 an hour in San Francisco and New York. But Uber doesn’t count these drivers as employees. Uber says they’re “independent contractors".
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The Pixar Theory of Labor
A lot of Pixar films come packaged with a quasi-humanist narrative hook that enables the public digestion of their work. Viewers nodded thoughtfully over WALL-E’s depiction of a future earth choked by the refuse of big-box retail, and of a human race infantilized and rendered obese by mindless consumption, while Brave was the first Pixar film to feature a female protagonist—a simple gesture, the long-overdueness of...
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The Pixar Theory of Labor
To live is to work is to live.
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The Doctors Whose Patients Are Already Dead
Inside the autopsy lab, pathologists talk about the emotional rewards of medicine's most-maligned specialty—and what it's like to work side-by-side with death. By Rachel Wilkinson.
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“Where’s My Cut?”: On Unpaid Emotional Labor
Jess Zimmerman, wryly, on the unpaid emotional labor she and other women perform for men, and why it has value.
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The Forgotten Village
Revisiting Steinbeck's California. By Gabriel Thompson.
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Why Jeb Bush Wants You to Work Harder
In an interview yesterday with the Union Leader, Jeb Bush committed an act of honesty. Asked to explain his economic program, Bush explained his goal of precipitating unprecedented economic growth, which, as he put it, “means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families.”
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Go the Fuck Home: Engineering Work/Life Balance - Pam Selle Ignite Philly 9
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Nowhere to Turn: a Nepali Cab Driver in Qatar
Sarun, a cab driver in Qatar, had not been paid in nearly four months. His family back home in Nepal desperately needed the money. He hadn't been home in two years, and his boss controlled his passport. All Sarun could do was wait.
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President Obama raises the overtime salary threshold, reestablishing a key labor standard
A new rule change could lift the pay of 5 million middle-wage workers and return some balance to the job market.
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The Shocking Numbers that Reveal Just How Burnt Out American Workers Are
Productivity has exploded in the American workforce in recent years, but at a terrible cost.
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Will Baby Boomers Change the Meaning of Retirement?
“Now that we’re living so much longer, we do not know what we will be doing with all that time.”
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How we learn to be helpless—and unlearn it
Learned helplessness keeps people in bad jobs, poor health, terrible relationships, and awful circumstances despite how easy it may be to escape. Learn how to defeat this psychological trap, thanks to the work of Martin Seligman. [Audio]
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North Dakota’s Oil Boom Is Over. What Now?
Thousands flocked to the state, building their lives around drilling. Then the price of oil plummeted.
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A World Without Work
For centuries, experts have predicted that machines would make workers obsolete. That moment may finally be arriving. Could that be a good thing?
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Encana warns upcoming restructuring will include more job cuts
Rumours have been confirmed that there will be
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The Case for the 32-Hour Workweek
Since 2006, Ryan Carson, the CEO of Treehouse, has maintained a four-day workweek for his employees. “There’s no rule that you have to work 40 hours, you have to work more to be successful,” says Carson. “We’ve proven that you can take it from an experiment into something that’s doable for real companies and real people in highly competitive markets.” Citing the benefits of a more flexible schedule, Carson believes that the reduced time...
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What Makes Work Meaningful? Ask a Zookeeper
In interviews with zookeepers, researchers found that good feelings about work ran deeper than a standard survey metric like job satisfaction could capture.
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The Subculture of Embattled Abortion Workers
I remember what I was doing when I learned that Dr. George Tiller had been murdered six years ago. It was the weekend of my college graduation and I was about to spend six weeks in my hometown of Sydney, Australia before moving to New York City... By Chloe Angyal.
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