Minasuk/ May 1, 2017/ Uncategorized

Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong | New York Times | April 2017 To our surprise, most people who got an industrial job soon changed their minds. A majority quit within the first months. They ended up doing what those who had not gotten the job offers did — going back to the family farm, taking a construction job

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/ May 1, 2017/ Uncategorized

Everything We Knew About Sweatshops Was Wrong | New York Times | April 2017 To our surprise, most people who got an industrial job soon changed their minds. A majority quit within the first months. They ended up doing what those who had not gotten the job offers did — going back to the family farm, taking a construction job

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Minasuk/ January 11, 2015/ Uncategorized

Why is everyone so busy? | Economist | December 2014 THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard Keynes in 1930, would work around “three hours a day”—and probably only by choice. Economic progress and technological advances had already shrunk working hours considerably by his day, and

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