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Sandra Spataro (Northern Kentucky) and Deirdre G. Snyder (Providence): The Downside of High Status: Relating Status Level and Coworker Status to Stress in the Workplace. From Fast Company, a series on why work has failed us: The broken promise of a “decent job”. How the U.S. economy turned six good jobs into bad ones. Money for nothing: Many jobs are pointless, others are being automated away — in the future, who will still work for a paycheck? It’s not technology that’s disrupting our jobs — the insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers. A job for everyone? This 21st-century Keynes says it’s possible.