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Issue 2. Work

Boston Public Doesn’t Add Up

David E. Kelley's latest comedy-drama might do for teachers what ER did for doctors: catapult them to fame without worrying about reality

Children on the Farm

In America, some jobs are less equal than others

A Call for a Better Job

A college student finds that telemarketing is a window to the new economy on the Plains

Left Out

Presidential candidate David McReynolds discusses the Socialist Party's search for legitimacy as well as votes

Love of Labor

For almost 20 years, folk musician Billy Bragg has been an unflinching voice for the working class

The Tradeoff

In today's tight economy, many companies attract workers with on-site cafeterias, health clubs and childcare. Is there any reason to go home?

Statistics: The Force of Work

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The Force of Work

 

Compiled by Arnold M. Kee Data applies to the United States Participation in workforce Percentage of black men in workforce in [...]

All-American Anarchist

Carlotta Anderson's biography of her grandfather, the anarchist and labor activist Joseph A. Labadie, examines his passions

Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure

Nan Enstad's book has invigorated labor history by examining working-class women's uses of popular culture as a resource to construct their identity

What Hard Work Is

A university professor who watched his father sell hotdogs and dodge bowling pins disputes the notion that academics have it hard