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May 15, 2019
Leila McNeill
Video Game Workers See Power in a Union
In a first for the industry, employees at Riot Games walked out to protest workplace discrimination and the forced arbitration that perpetuates the problem.
March 4, 2019
Jonathan Malesic
How to Save Americans From the Hell of Work
Elites are "miserable" in their jobs. Millennials are burned out. Can religion, loosely defined, help us reclaim our free time and find meaning in our lives?
February 19, 2019
Magazine
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
The Spiritual Case for Socialism
A new book attempts to deepen the philosophical dimension of a revived left.
January 10, 2019
Jonathan Malesic
Millennials Don’t Have a Monopoly on Burnout
This is a societal scourge, not a generational one. So how can we solve it?
October 12, 2018
Jane Hu
The Office at the End of the World
Ling Ma’s novel ‘Severance’ likens life under capitalism to a zombie apocalypse.
July 12, 2018
David Dayen
The Inevitable Death of Global Trade As We Know It
Free-trade proponents accuse Trump of imperiling a decades-old system, but a reckoning was due no matter what.
May 8, 2018
David Dayen
How America Broke Its Economy
Unemployment is at a 15-year low, so why aren't wages surging? Because the old rules no longer apply.
December 15, 2017
Rachel Syme
Enlightened
Dared Women to Speak Out
Why you should be rewatching the show in the wake of #MeToo
August 9, 2017
Graham Vyse
America would be safer if Trump took a real vacation.
August 9, 2017
Jonathan Malesic
Parenting Is Not a “Job,” and Marriage Is Not “Work”
Yes, they're hard to do. But our narrow moral vocabulary for describing non-professional pursuits is making our lives worse.
May 16, 2017
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Clio Chang
How Republicans Are Blocking Cities From Raising the Minimum Wage
April 26, 2017
Lucia Graves
Trump Is Giving Us a Case of Romnesia
Trump's incompetence and misogyny is making some Americans nostalgic for Mitt Romney. Don't be.
April 18, 2017
Magazine
Miya Tokumitsu
The United States of Work
Employers exercise vast control over our lives, even when we're not on the job. How did our bosses gain power that the government itself doesn't hold?
March 31, 2017
Clio Chang
The GOP is pushing hard for work requirements. Democrats shouldn’t let them.
March 28, 2017
Jonathan Malesic
America Must Divorce Dignity From Work
A job guarantee is a good policy idea. But universal basic income is better.
September 6, 2016
Miya Tokumitsu
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Joeri Mol
Life at the Nowhere Office
Today's workplace design asks us to be permanently on call—and demands that we vanish at a moment's notice.
June 23, 2016
Jessica Nordell
Stop Giving Digital Assistants Female Voices
Siri, Alexa, and now Viv all sound like women. That's a problem in real life.
June 16, 2016
Navneet Alang
You Can Never Hide From Your Boss
What Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn heralds for the future of work.
October 6, 2015
The New Republic Staff
How Many Hours Would It Take You to Work Off Today’s College Tuition?
September 29, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Some of America's Richest Companies Have Pathetic Paid Leave Plans
Here's what the top ten Fortune 500 companies offer their employees
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