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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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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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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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The Surrogacy Cycle
Promising an escape from poverty, transnational surrogacy has left many Indian women with little to show for their efforts. What went wrong? By Abby Rabinowitz.
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Outrage after big labor crafts law paying their members less than non-union workers
When Los Angeles City Council members voted two years ago to give hotel workers a raise, Bill Martinez was the type of worker they said they wanted to help. Martinez, a 53-year-old bellhop… By Peter Jamison. (Apr. 9)
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You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
Patty Loveless
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Sexual Harassment Investigation Will Expand to Entire National Park System
National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis has ordered a survey to determine if misconduct at the Grand Canyon represents a widespread problem. By Elizabeth Shogren and Lyndsey Gilpin.
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Why Do Cats Love Bookstores?
Protecting Books and Witholding Affection for Centuries. By Jason Diamond.
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Hillary, the Panama Papers, and the death of American kleptocracy
The wealth that Hillary Clinton and her husband have accumulated through their political connections is exactly what a growing number of voters are rebelling against. Can her campaign survive the overthrow of the American kleptocracy? By Will Bunch.
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Yelp Raises Wages After Talia Jane’s Open Letter
How “Lady Murderface” ended up a successful labor rabble-rouser. By Lauren Smiley.
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A Portrait of a Coal Town on the Brink of Death
A failing coal industry has left many residents of West Virginia with few options: move away, die, or try to scrape out a future in an unforgiving economic climate. By Jacob S. Knabb.
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The Bittersweet Victories of Women
At first glance, the answer to the question “What is sex discrimination?” seems obvious enough: treating men and women differently, because of sex. But at second glance, considering that men and women actually are different in ways that might have some relevance to the workplace, complexities soon emerge. Linda Greenhouse reviews “Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work” by Gillian Thomas.
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5 Reasons to Be Wary of Amnesty’s Prostitution Policy
Move could increase sex trafficking and reduce quality of life for prostitutes. By Darren Geist.
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Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer
The most obvious explanation for the increase in extreme poverty between 1996 and 2011 is that jobs were harder to find in 2011, but that is only half the story. Christopher Jencks reviews “$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America” by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer.
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America’s Workforce Runs on Uppers
Uppers like Benzedrine and cocaine provided a willing workforce for our capitalist economy. Now, Americans are turning to ADHD medications. By Kate Bielamowicz.
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‘I have to be taller’: the unregulated world of India’s limb-lengthening industry
Young Indians are paying for complex, painful procedures despite the absence of medical oversight in the race to improve career and marriage prospects. By Vidhi Doshi. (May 8, ’16)
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Being Rich Doesn't Mean You're More Hardworking: Economist Says Markets Amplify Luck
Why do hardworking people with similar talents and training often earn such dramatically different incomes? And why, too, have these earnings gaps grown so much larger in recent decades? Almost no other questions have proved more enduringly fascinating to economists. The traditional approach to these questions views labor markets as perfectly competitive meritocracies in which people are paid in accordance with the value of what they produce. In this view, earnings differences result largely from individual differences...
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Don’t let yourself get pushed into a job promotion
People who accept a management job they don’t really want are twice as likely to end up quitting. Dear Annie: I really identified with Fortune’s recent article about turning down a promotion, because I’m facing a dilemma. I like what I’m doing now, as the logistics person on a brand-management team, and I know I’m really good at it. But our company has an unwritten rule where everyone moves “up or out,” and lately my boss has been making noises about promoting me to management.
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“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night”
Extract from ‘Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London’ by Matthew Beaumont. (Apr. 2016)
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This List of Ways People Are Dying at Work [in the U.S.] Will Make Your Stomach Churn
Be thankful you have a job. Be thankful you’re alive. By Luke O’Neil. (May 9, 2016)
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