Employment Archives

Employment

“I am Here Only for Working”

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE

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From a test given to applicants for the position of emoji translator at Today Translations, a language company based in London. The job description, which was posted in December, asks…

The Lottery

by Vanessa Gregory,

The false promises of foreign-labor recruiters

What Recovery?

by Kai Wright,

Two years in a town where the Great Recession never ended

Shooting Down Man the Hunter

by Rebecca Solnit,

Sooner or later in conversations about who we are, who we have been, and who we can be, someone will tell a story about Man the Hunter. It’s a story…

On Getting Wasted

by John Trotta,

Among the hoarders and junk haulers of Charleston

The Real Lost Generation

by Jeff Madrick,

In late August, I traveled with colleagues from the Roosevelt Institute in New York to New Orleans, where we had invited a panel of community organizers to join us in…

Helter Seltzer

by Jamie Levin, Sarah Treleaven,

The campaign against SodaStream

The pink pyramid scheme

by Virginia Sole-Smith,

How Mary Kay cosmetics preys on desperate housewives

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Art by P.J. Loughran,

The Necessity of Agriculture

by Wendell Berry,

From a May 16 speech given in acceptance of the annual Louis Bromfield Society Award. Novelist and conservationist Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) was the author of over thirty works of fiction…