Employees

Paper Pushers

By Studs Terkel, Daniel Ellsberg,

studs terkel: Your name is known to quite a few Americans these days. You let the country and the world know about a series of documents called the Pentagon Papers.…

Over the River

By Richard Manning,

Returning home to Flint

The Lottery

By Vanessa Gregory,

The false promises of foreign-labor recruiters

Dressed Down

By Colleen Brown,

From a declaration filed in June in a lawsuit against Dov Charney, the founder and former CEO of American Apparel, by Colleen Brown, who is the chairperson of the company’s…

Shop Tools

From testimony given last November by Randy Cosby, a district manager of AutoZone, in a gender-discrimination case brought against the company by Rosario Juarez, a former employee at a California…

The Spy Who Fired Me

By Esther Kaplan,

The human costs of workplace monitoring

Shirking 9 to 5

From a list of reasons given for missing work, collected by CareerBuilder in a survey completed by 2,303 hiring managers and human-resources professionals. Read More

A Selection of Employee Badges

Good Guy With a Gun

From a complaint filed in July against Heritage Park Care Center, a nursing home in Carbondale, Colorado, by Michelle Meeker, a former nurse at the facility. The case is ongoing.…

The End of Retirement

By Jessica Bruder,

When you can’t afford to stop working

Library of Dribble

By Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Ferrari, Translated by Jason Wilson,

From Conversations, a collection of dialogues conducted in 1984 and 1985 between Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Osvaldo Ferrari, out next month from Seagull Books. Translated from the…

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