Yeonjeong Kim and Taya R. Cohen (Carnegie Mellon): Moral Character and Workplace Deviance: Recent Research and Current Trends. David Watkins (Dayton): Republicanism at Work: Strategies for Supporting Resistance to Domination in the Workplace. Susan Berfield on how Walmart keeps an eye on its massive workforce: The retail giant is always watching. In the future, when the body and mind are no longer sufficient for the purposes of the production of capital, emotional labor is the only labor we will have left. Emily Crockett on how child care workers are paid less than dog walkers or janitors. Where should all the coal miners go? The evidence on conventional job re-training programs is unimpressive, which is bad news for the thousands of coal workers who are likely to lose their jobs in the coming years. The future of work: Silja Hausermann on appeasing the angry manufacturing worker.
In America, you can work hard, play by the rules, and still get screwed. Why do Americans work so much? Keynes predicted a society so prosperous that people would hardly have to work — but that isn’t exactly how things have played out. Why we should get three-day weekends all the time: The idea of working less is not only feasible, it is also the basis for a better standard of life, argues David Spencer — work does not set us free, rather it hems us in and makes it more difficult to realise ourselves.
