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The plight of young scientists
A special issue explores how the research enterprise keeps early-career scientists from pursuing the most important work, and what can be done to help.
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The Price of Gold
Over a period of 20 days, Thom Pierce travelled around South Africa's Eastern Cape, into Lesotho and up to Johannesburg to find and photograph the miners, and widows, suffering from silicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis as a result of working in the gold mines.
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Japan’s Disposable Workers: Dumping Ground
Kamagasaki, Osaka, Japan used to be a thriving day laborer’s town. Today, it is home to approximately 25,000 unemployed and elderly men, many of whom are also homeless.Alcoholism, poverty, suicide, Tuberculosis and, most of all, loneliness prevail here. These men don’t have family ties. They live and die as social outcasts from the mainstream “salaryman” culture. (May 19, 2014)
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Truck drivers are getting America's biggest pay raises
Truckers are hitting the pedal on their paychecks. Truck drivers' wages grew 7.8% in October, compared to a year ago -- the biggest jump among 60 common professions analyzed by Glassdoor.com, a job-search website. It's also far better than the overall wage growth for all jobs of 2.8%. "We have a booming economy, we're seven years into the expansion and truck drivers are the front line," says Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor.
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Cleaners to get pay increases and an end to deductions for uniforms
An order signed by Pat Breen TD, Minister for Employment and Small Business, means that three pay increases for contract cleaners will kick in. It provides for a new pay rate of €10.05 per hour – up from €9.75 – to come into effect 55 days from 1 November, 2016. Two further pay increases will come into effect on 1 December 2017 and 1 December 2018, when the rates will go up to €10.40 and €10.80 per hour, respectively.
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Why Morning People Thrive
Some neuroscientists are trying to change school and work hours that discriminate against night owls. By James Hamblin.
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Upward Mobility
The Helio Sequence
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New York City’s Graveyard Shift
A look at the men and women who work while the rest of the city sleeps. Text by Alexandra Schwartz, photographs by Adam Pape.
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Time for a High Tech Peace Corps for Low Tech Places
So how do you revitalize hurting communities that were promised a decent life and an American dream? I believe you turn to the high-tech community for answers.
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Cracking the Sitcom Code
After signing up to write a script for Croatian television, I learned that virtually all TV comedies, from Seinfeld to South Park, follow a simple formula. By Noah Charney. (Dec. 28, 2014)
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How to Fix the Art World, Part 1
Back in August my staff and I embarked on an epic project: we wanted to know what inhabitants of the art world think is wrong with it and how they would fix it. In the ensuing months we spoke with more than 50 individuals—artists and curators, critics and historians, art dealers and an art fair director—to gather a range of perspectives...
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The Emotional Labor of Waitressing
Marie Billiel, who has worked in the restaurant industry for 10 years, talks about having to have a ”mask on” for eight hours at a time. By Adrienne Green.
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An Ex-Cop’s Remorse
An investigator who probes wrongful convictions now doubts a case of his own. By Stephanie Clifford,
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Sex Workers Describe Their First Day on the Job
Craigslist foot fetishists and porn shoots that put your first day work jitters to shame. By Graham Isador.
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The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889
Fifteen Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life. By Ayun Halliday.
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A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor
Smithsonian journeyed from Maine to California to update a landmark study of American life. By Dale Maharidge; Photographs by Matt Black.
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Why you can’t afford to ignore nature in the workplace
Love your job, but hate your office? For many of us, our physical workplace can be dark, depressing, bland and even dysfunctional. Windowless cubicle farms and airless open-plan floors can kill motivation and take a toll on worker performance, possibly even their health.
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What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore? Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that it builds character (punctuality, initiative, honesty, self-discipline, and so forth). We’ve also believed that the market in labour, where we go to find work, has been relatively efficient in allocating opportunities and incomes.
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Rio Tinto’s plan to use drones to monitor workers’ private lives
Privacy campaigners express alarm after company contracts Sodexo to ‘capture individual insights’ from staff in Western Australian mining camps. By Max Opray.
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Why ‘Deep Work’ Is the Key to Your Team’s Success
Uninterrupted time has become more valuable, and distractions have become ubiquitous. This has increased the value of “Deep Work” — a term described by Deep Work author, Cal Newport, as “professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit.”
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