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Chasing the Harvest: ‘If You Want to Die, Stay at the Ranch’
In this oral history, a former sheepherder describes the loneliness and medical hardship he experienced while tending sheep in California’s Central Valley. By Heraclio Astete, with journalist Gabriel Thompson.
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The Chinese Factory Workers Who Write Poems on Their Phones
“An unprecedented opportunity in the history of working class literature.” By Megan Walsh. (May 1, 2017)
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The Work You Do, the Person You Are
The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed. By Toni Morrison.
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Groundbreaking discovery confirms existence of orbiting supermassive black holes
For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they’ve been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth – a discovery more than a decade in the making.
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Since no one is really working on Friday afternoons, some employers just say go home
Some workplaces have not only embraced the summer doldrums, they've turned those agonizingly slow Friday afternoons into a cheap perk dubbed the "summer Friday." A number of employers, acutely aware of the fact that workers are daydreaming of being anywhere but at the office, let them take the day off or leave early on Friday afternoons in an effort to boost morale and productivity.
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$40,000-a-Night Escorts: Secrets of the Cannes Call Girls
A businessman – and Gadhafi associate – who was convicted in a 2007 prostitution ring bust reveals all the dirty secrets of how models (and even some Hollywood actresses) swarm the hotels and yacht parties during the fest: says one escort, it’s “the biggest payday of the year.” By Dana Kennedy. (May 17, 2013)
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These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs
At the autonomous driving startup Starsky Robotics, the present and future of U.S. employment ride in the same cab. By Max Chafkin and Josh Eidelson.
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A Taxonomy of Yak Shaving
Yak Shaving is: doing seemingly-unrelated tasks to get some real task done.
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A 21st-Century Form of Indentured Servitude Has Already Penetrated Deep into the American Heartland
Corporations want to make sure that laborers never again have the power to tell big business how to treat them. Indentured servitude is back in a big way in the United States, and conservative corporatists want to make sure that labor never, ever again has the power to tell big business how to treat them. By Thom Hartmann.
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To My Fellow Plutocrats: You Can Cure Trumpism
Don’t console yourself for a minute that in electing a fellow plutocrat, our side won. President Trump isn’t on any side but his own. By Nick Hanauer.
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Immigration raids ten years ago didn’t change this meatpacking town’s job market
Ten years after INS raids upended Latinos' lives in small meatpacking towns across the Midwest, the jobs didn't go to native Nebraskans. Most went to the next immigrants – many from Somalia. By Nigel Duara.
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Parenting and Working
Historically, it is very odd for business people - or indeed anyone with an executive role – to spend much of their day attending to the needs of their own children. People weren’t heartless, they just didn’t think that it was particularly good for children to spend a lot of time with their pa
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Chinese songs of dignity
The visible and invisible social inequalities in the new China built by migrant workers. By Peter Bengtsen. (June 19, 2017)
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How work changed to make us all passionate quitters
When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit. By Ilana Gershon.
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The Drug Runners
The Tarahumara of northern Mexico became famous for their ability to run incredibly long distances. Now, they’re running for their lives. By Ryan Goldberg.
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Why I work myself to death
If you want to understand why Americans work too much, you should. Studies regularly find that Americans are among the most overworked peoples in the industrialized world. A survey by Staples in 2015 discovered that more than half of all Americans (53 percent) are burned out and overworked, while another study found that the average European works 19 percent less than the average American. Despite these trends, however,Americans continue to retire later and reduce their vacation time.
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15 Types Of Difficult Clients And How to Deal With Each Of Them
If you work in advertising, you know what it's like when a bad client comes along. Thankfully, the staff of Coplex (formerly Ciplex) have been observing a variety of clients in their native habitats for some time now, and they've come up with a handy field guide on how to approach this temperamental species.
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The robots are coming, this time to rural Wisconsin
How a couple of robots came to be the newest hires at a Wisconsin factory in search of reliable workers.
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Professional romance novelists can write 3,000 words a day. Here’s how they do it
Tips on timing, psychology and breaks from authors who finish multiple books per year.
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Having a bad job may be worse for your health than having no job at all
People working in low paying, unstable jobs show more signs of chronic stress than their counterparts who remain unemployed. For the unemployed, finding a job can be a path to improved mental health, but only if it’s a good one, a recent study finds. Researchers tracked 116 British adults who were unemployed in 2009-2010. Those who found good jobs enjoyed improved mental health outcomes, while those who found jobs that were stressful, poorly paid, or unstable saw no improvement.
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