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My First Mistake
In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required.” By Simon Winchester. (2013)
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Broken Promises
Decades of Failure to Enforce Labor Standards in Free Trade Agreements
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You Will Not Get To Retire: How Old Age Became Unaffordable And Unhealthy, And How We Can Fix It
The days of retiring peacefully and financially secure are close to being over. Get ready for a lot more seniors in the work force—which has the potential to be both a problem and an opportunity.
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The second job you don’t know you have
How self-checkouts, ATMs and airport check-ins are changing our economy.
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What If You Didn't Have to Work for Money?
Advocates say that a guaranteed basic income can lead to more creative, fulfilling work. The question is how to fund it.
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The unemployed are dropping out like flies
At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don't have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking.
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Qatar refuses to let Nepalese workers return to attend funerals after quake
Nepalese minister says Fifa must pressure the Gulf state for better treatment of 1.5 million south Asian migrants
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How Employers Get Out of Paying Their Workers
Employers illegally siphon billions of dollars out of low-wage workers' paychecks each year, but the vast majority of these crimes go unreported.
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Japan Tells Its Workers to Take More Vacation
Japan wants its workers to take more holidays and work fewer hours to cut down the number of people pushing themselves into an early grave. Decades after "karoshi," death from overwork, entered the Japanese lexicon, the government is still battling to get control of the problem. Leave entitlements and national holidays have increased, but the Japanese still shun vacations and the number of work-related suicides is little changed over the past decade.
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We are no longer paid what we are worth – just look at dog walkers
With some dog walkers now paid more than the average employee, it’s clear the days when pay was linked to effort, skill and the societal worth of a job are over
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O Martyr My Martyr!
In most communities, teachers are compensated so poorly and afforded so little respect that in many cases the primary compensation is martyrdom.
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Europeans are so sick of being unemployed that they're working fake jobs at fake companies
While Europe battles long-term unemployment, some people have grown so restless that they've started working fake jobs at fake companies all around the continent. The New York Times' Liz Alderman reports that thousands of fake companies across Europe hire fake employees to sell fake products to fake customers. Products like perfume, porcelain, and exotic pets.
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Millennials Aren’t Lazy: Millennials Aren’t Working Because the Economy Isn’t Either
Job prospects for the class of 2015 are better than for the several classes that graduated before them, but young graduates today still face many economic challenges, including stagnant wages and high levels of unemployment and underemployment.
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The True Reason Behind The 40-Hour Work Week And Why We Are Economic Slaves
Economic slavery, or wage slavery, refers to ones total and immediate dependence on wages to survive. Although people throughout history have had to ...
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Britain’s hotel workers – bullied, underpaid and with few rights
Exhausted cleaning staff, mainly women, are having to attend to more rooms for the same pay and are scared to join a union. But activists are recruiting more members and the workers are fighting back
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Heavy metal: Life at the world's largest shipyard
To a European visitor, the city of Ulsan on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula seems like a throwback to some lost world....
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Employees want a ‘family feel’ at the heart of their organisation’s culture, finds latest Employee Outlook survey
The latest Employee Outlook 2015 survey, published by the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, in partnership with Halogen Software, has found that regardless of organisation size, the vast majority of employees want to work for a firm that has a ‘family feel’ and is ‘held together by loyalty and tradition’.
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Gawker to Vote on Unionizing, Because New Media Is Old Now | WIRED
Gawker writers are voting to decide if they should unionize. The result could spur tech workers in general to think harder about organizing.
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Displaced IT workers are being silenced
A major problem with the ongoing H-1B debate is the absence of displaced IT workers in news stories. Much of the reporting is one-sided -- and there's a reason.
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Making Victoria’s Secret Pay For Keeping Staff On Call
The controversial form of scheduling locks staff into shifts that can be canceled at the last minute, with no pay. But a lawsuit in California, and investigation in New York, could lead to big changes...
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