Zoom: the bigger picture
Should out of office be permanently on and other post-lockdown questions? Nick Skelton explains why digital isn’t the only pointer for the future. I’m an IT person by background but …
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Full Employment Prioritised by Biden
Full employment is being pursued by Biden, despite repeated consultation will famously neoliberal Larry Summers. James Galbraith and Ryan Grim sit down to discuss what this means for US economic …
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Child labour on the rise for the first time since 2000
Child labour has increased to 160 million – the first rise in two decades – and that number could swell by millions more because of the effects of the coronavirus …
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What Did The Luddites Get Right?
Gavin Mueller’s “Why You Should be Breaking Things at Work” makes a persuasive case for the Luddites. So why have so many people—including your favorite Communist philosophers—insisted that they were …
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An Exodus of Women From The Workforce.
As women around the world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, a startling reality sunk in – there has been an exodus of women from the workforce. Forty-seven million …
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Research reveals a pay gap for LGBTQ workers and the cost of exclusion
The wage gaps that exist between men and women and between white and black people have received a lot of attention in recent years. But there’s another wage gap that …
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Study Shows ‘Intentional Policy Decisions’—Not Abstract Market Forces—to Blame for Wage Stagnation
A new report published Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute details how wage stagnation in the U.S. is not due abstract forces like technological advances and globalization, but the result …
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How the growing identity economy is reshaping the future of work
People no longer work just to put food on the table. In addition to funding basic needs, they work with a vision of self-fulfilment, purpose, and growth. They expect their …
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