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The Grueling, Never-Ending Job of Painting the Golden Gate Bridge
Nature wants to turn this American icon to rust. Chad Allan won't let that happen.
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How low-wage employers cost taxpayers $153B a year
Here's a stark number for understanding how low-wage employers are relying on the kindness of taxpayers: $153 billion. That's the annual bill that state and federal governments are footing for working families making poverty-level wages at big corporations such as Walmart (WMT) and McDonald's (MCD), according to a new study from the University of California Berkeley Labor Center.
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Tears of the Sun
The gold rush at the top of the world.
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The Slave Ship that Ran from Kerala to New Orleans
Post Hurricane Katrina, a whole new American dream was designed for some Indians — how to get trapped in a guarded labor camp by an American company. Five of these Indians just won $14 million in damages in their fight for justice and dignity, in one of the largest labor trafficking cases in US history. There are more than 200 other plaintiffs awaiting justice in this explosive, racist example of how America's broken visa program continues to exploit international migrants.
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The Radium Girls
SciShow explores the harrowing tale of the so-called Radium Girls, factory workers who were the first who for years worked with one of the world’s most radioactive substances -- and suffered the consequences. Hosted by Hank Green.
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What If Uber Were a Unionized, Worker-Owned Co-Op? These Denver Cabbies Are Making It Happen
Workers at app-driven companies like Uber don’t have the rights of full employees. But with the help of traditional unions, some are banding together into worker-owned cooperatives.
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In Bloodborne's brutal world, I found myself
I've always wanted to know the difference between perseverance and masochism. This is the game that taught me.
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If we no longer force people to work to meet their basic needs, won't they stop working?
What underlies a question like this is that it's okay to force people to work by withholding what they need to live, in order to force them to work for us. And at the same time, because they are forced, we don't even pay them enough to meet their basic needs that we are withholding to force them to work.
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10 U.S. senators seek investigation into H-1B-driven layoffs
Ten U.S. senators, representing the political spectrum, are seeking a federal investigation into displacement of IT workers by H-1B using contractors.
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iQuit: What Really Goes on at Apple
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. – Steve Jobs, June 12, 2005.
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Imagining a Post-Coal Appalachia
Can young people help the region thrive again?
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The Assistant Economy
In 1975 Susan Sontag, the American intellectual famous for On Photography and Against Interpretation, was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer and survived after a radical mastectomy, extensive radiation treatments, and thirty months of debilitating chemotherapy. In the aftermath she needed someone to help her catch up on her correspondence. Her editors at the New York Review of Books recommended a former Review assistant named Sigrid Nunez, who lived near Sontag on the Upper West Side...
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Could this one-armed robot lead the next industrial revolution?
Sawyer the one-armed robot can do many things. It can assemble goods on the factory floor day after day without tiring, taking toilet breaks, or asking its boss for a raise.
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McDonald's oldest employee in Europe celebrates 90th birthday
The oldest McDonald's employee in Europe is celebrating his 90th birthday with a party at the restaurant where he works, saying he has no plans to retire just yet.
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Farewell to the Blue-Collar Elite
Employment is rising in durable-goods manufacturing after a decades-long decline. But the pay is no longer anything special.
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Doorman fired from luxury building for being 'too nice' to tenants
Nice doormen finish last. Ralph Body was booted from a luxe Long Island City apartment building — for being too accommodating to its well-heeled tenants, he told The Post. Body, 41, said he “gave his life” to the glimmering Queens tower called 27 on 27th ever since it opened two years ago a few blocks from the East River. He didn’t just hold the door. He did anything and everything residents asked him to do...
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Secondhand Stories in a Rusting Steel City
“Take what’s in front of you, not what it was or could be. And do what you can with it.”
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Sugar Days
Working the Harvest, Then Moving On
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How Robots & Algorithms Are Taking Over
By Sue Halpern
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Taking aim at tech industry inequality, Microsoft extends paid leave to thousands of contractors
Although people do many jobs at Microsoft’s sprawling campus in Redmond, Wash., there are fundamentally two types of workers. The first type is an employee, entitled to the generous pay and benefits Microsoft has long offered: paid parental leave, a 401(k) match, tuition assistance, discounted stock purchases, the list goes on. The second is a contractor, employed by one of Microsoft's 2,000 suppliers. Many of them do tasks similar to those of the employees...
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