#Labor

Farming was the 1800s. Manufacturing was the 1900s. Counterintuitively, could investing become the most common "job" of the 2000s?Reason: crypto and fintech are turning everyone into an investor, just like
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A confusing thing is that in Anglophone Taiwanese discourse, the label "migrant" is used for both "migrant workers" who lack long-term residency rights; & "immigrants" like the women below, almost
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I recently put a link on my website to my ABLE account for gift contributions if anyone valued my labor or learned something from it. I've gotten questions as to
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JUST RELEASED: An @IESResearch evaluation of a @usedgov experiment on providing Pell Grants to very-short-term programs. The headline: Sure, it increases enrollment in those programs, but impact on labor market
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This thread is absolutely right, both in saying we do not know what's really going on, and also in saying there's reason to suspect a particular outcome and that that
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So... I read that Larry Summers op-ed. Frankly, I don't completely understand the whole thing, but he said something that isn't entirely true:"Unemployment is falling." Sure, but labor non participation
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The last time parliament sat for a fortnight the Libs spent the weekend lying to journalists claiming Labor was going to block a wage subsidy. So I thought I’d get
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Ten years ago, my wife went into labor, while due on Nov 1. Through the wonder of science, she spent three weeks in suspended labor, and through the wonder of
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Jimmy Dore vs Jerry White, labor editor of the World Socialist Web Site, on the merits of the Left making common cause with right wing Boogaloo Boys.Part 1https://vimeo.com/503867432  after this
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There seems to be an attempt to head off the waxing interest in anti-imperialism by enfolding that discussion into toothless, confusing, or confused discussions of militarism and (unfortunately) declawed versions
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Ah, the #prochoice trending hashtag: breathe that sweet, servile odor of prochoicers singing their allegiance to their capitalist bosses. Pointing out that the child-killing is the fuel by which large
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I largely agree with this thread but this is a misrepresentation of why adjunct labor is bad for students. It's not that adjuncts don't get as much experience - many
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hey guys, let's talk about the way we engage (or don't engage with) the creators of media. cuz affecting change in creative industries has to, in part, come from us
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NYC is closing public schools again. Who will care for these students at home? Reminder: Nearly 1 MILLION working women dropped out of the US workforce in Sept, an underreported
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Tonight I hopped on @adawson810 Racial Justice in Health Education zoom. It is a reoccurring group of #healthed ts who are working to become better teachers and humans. tonight we
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This capitalist system has forced us to rely on our wage labor to survive. When an employer is taking advantage of workers, which is always inevitable, and the employees are
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