The Tyranny of Convenience | New York Times | February 2018 But we err in presuming convenience is always good, for it has a complex relationship with other ideals that we hold dear. Though understood and promoted as an instrument of liberation, convenience has a dark side. With its promise of smooth, effortless efficiency, it threatens to erase the sort
The Tyranny of Convenience | New York Times | February 2018 But we err in presuming convenience is always good, for it has a complex relationship with other ideals that we hold dear. Though understood and promoted as an instrument of liberation, convenience has a dark side. With its promise of smooth, effortless efficiency, it threatens to erase the sort
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
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
Photos: The Real Toy Story | Michael Wolf | September 2006 “Chinese Factory Workers & the Toys They Make,” Imgur, 2013, http://imgur.com/a/wrIds. Pamela Engel, “Step Inside China’s Grueling Toy Factories [PHOTOS],” Business Insider, 25 February 2014, http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-inside-chinas-toy-factories-2014-2?op=1. Stefanie Rüggeberg, “Made in China,” Hamburger Abendblatt, 5 September 2006, http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article108673293/Made-in-China.html.
E-Commerce: Convenience Built on a Mountain of Cardboard | New York Times | February 2016 The environmental cost can include the additional cardboard — 35.4 million tons of containerboard were produced in 2014 in the United States, with e-commerce companies among the fastest-growing users — and the emissions from increasingly personalized freight services.
12 Horrifying Photos of the Tech Industry Apple Never Wants You to See | U.S. Uncut | September 2015 As the American public continues to depend more on digital technology to run society, the US tech industry is booming. New gadgets are flooding the market each year, and the top tech companies — Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, HP, and Cisco,
Working Undercover in a Slaughterhouse: an interview with Timothy Pachirat | Medium | August 2014 Timothy Pachirat is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale University Press, 2011), an ethnographic account of his undercover job in a cattle slaughterhouse. “I wanted