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- Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10.9T https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/04/opinion/women-unpaid-labor.html 14 comments
- Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $11T https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/04/opinion/women-unpaid-labor.html 28 comments
- Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4M/year on Reddit https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators/ 123 comments
- Drones could replace $127 billion worth of human labor and services http://qz.com/679591/drones-could-replace-127-billion-worth-of-human-labor-and-services/ 23 comments economy
- GM wants $18 billion. The company is worth $3 billion. We should nationalize GM and convert its labor force and manufacturing capacity to build a green infrastructure. http://www.theseminal.com/2008/12/03/general-motors-green-collar-bailout/ 73 comments reddit.com
- Two charts to ruin Labor Day: US labor is worth less than ever http://qz.com/120261 31 comments politics
- Leah Van Dale on Instagram: "Dimitri Paul Polinsky 11.8.23 8lbs 21 inches 🩵 …well worth the 60 hour labor (more on that another day 🫠)" https://www.instagram.com/p/CzbXbvaAda6/?igshid=Y2NkYjk0MDhjYg%3D%3D 87 comments squaredcircle
- Is it Worth Your Life (1992) WA State Dept of Labor Violence Prevention [00:19:01] https://youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=RWgltQtLo6g 2 comments documentaries
- Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth $3.4 million a year on Reddit alone https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-unpaid-social-media-moderators-labor.html 31 comments technology
- Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth $3.4 million a year on Reddit alone https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators/ 6 comments technology
- [Rovell] After $1.2 billion worth of deals on Day 1 of NBA free agency, I'm suspecting the union will be quiet about the next labor deal today https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/616585091490390016 112 comments nba
- Shout out to SilentD: Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4 million a year on Reddit alone https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators/ 21 comments airforce
- Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4 million a year on Reddit alone https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators/ 56 comments business
- Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4 million a year on Reddit alone https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators/ 27 comments nottheonion
- Unpaid social media moderators perform labor worth at least $3.4 million a year on Reddit alone https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/05/unpaid-social-media-moderators/ 1141 comments science
- Why is the U.S. so bad at passing climate policy? It's by design. | After decades of failed climate bills, it's worth asking: Why is the U.S. so bad at this? | Fossil fuel interests are represented on both the left, through labor unions & industrial workers, and on the right by business interests https://grist.org/politics/is-american-democracy-uniquely-bad-at-tackling-climate-change/ 18 comments climate
- [Passan] For players who sign today as an undrafted free agent for $20,000 max: I'm sorry your indoctrination into the professional game involves receiving a fraction of what you'd be worth if you weren't used as pawns in a labor fight that has gone absolutely nowhere. It's shameful. https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1272199825673650176 276 comments baseball
- The NFL’s Scramble to Strike the Richest Deals in Sports. Coming off a strong season, the NFL is antsy to renegotiate its media deals worth tens of billions. The key: agreeing to a new labor deal with its players first. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-nfls-scramble-to-strike-the-richest-deals-in-sports-11581685200?emailtoken=1eeef5302e99aacb139362596740c5877uby/kq5tfucechcv3j4j1jqovvaw/wibi3jpcxier6y/o5nlvyvmvxsyujymrflgckhwv63rxvykemzw//+4t4v9qjgplpioqodu8togpk+w99n0dvgzwhcnh9ngyew&reflink=article_email_share 11 comments nfl
- Postdoc jobs in biomedicine don’t yield a positive return in the labor market, and these positions likely cost graduates roughly three years’ worth of salary in their first 15 years of their careers, finds a new study by Boston University and University of Kansas researchers. http://www.bu.edu/news/2017/01/10/study-finds-postdoc-jobs-in-biomedicine-dont-yield-positive-returns-in-the-labor-market/ 19 comments science
- Unless something dramatic changes, Americans are on the verge of living in a nation where the right to organize and to belong to a labor union no longer exists. The country will need to decide, sooner rather than later, if those rights are worth preserving. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2014/06/supreme_court_harris_decision_if_you_care_about_income_inequality_you_should.html 351 comments politics
- Texas Contractors Say Playing by the Rules Doesn't Pay - Many construction business owners say they can't compete without bending labor laws - Homes there are cheap. You can buy a new, 5-bedroom, 3,000-sq-ft house near Fort Worth for just $160,000. But it comes at a price — to workers http://www.npr.org/2013/04/11/176777498/texas-contractors-say-playing-by-the-rules-doesnt-pay 126 comments politics
- Any manufacturing recovery will be laborless "You probably know that most cars are made with less than 24 hours worth of human labor. The rest is all done by automation. Machines building machines. It sounds simple, but you have to watch it to really understand what it means." http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/11/no-humans-just-robots-amazing-videos-of-the-modern-factory/?r=redrf 7 comments economy
- It is of course also worth noting that every other nation with a major auto industry indirectly subsidizes that industry, especially its labor costs, by providing universal health care and generous social security/public pension programs. http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2009/04/pinkertons.html 6 comments politics