A humane and decent society provides people with opportunity to fulfill their potential and find happiness and meaning, including meaningful work. Two key ingredients make this more likely-shared prosperity and robust democracy. Both are essential.
This Labor Day, celebrate with 17 movies that remind us that we work to live, not the other way around.
For decades, Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, wrote about poverty, hard work, and the defiant pride of working-class women. Parton gave a voice to those who are all too often forgotten. The Left should steal a page from her songbook.
This generation does not trust parties, leaders, or institutions. It also votes, boycotts, protests, organizes online, quits jobs, channels its anger through digital platforms. Most importantly, it can turn everyday life into a political battleground
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In his new encyclical, Pope Leo XIV revives the importance of the dignity of labor. So leave it to the pope to enliven our conversation about artificial intelligence by reviving the idea that work is intrinsic to human dignity.
Our male protagonists — or perhaps men more broadly — are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.
“We, as feminists today, like domestic workers in the 1970s and in the early 2000s, need to think outside the box...We can’t think about domestic work as an individual issue within the household, but as a structural problem....”
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Apple’s dystopian workplace thriller Severance entered its second season as a genuine cultural phenomenon. With its brutal satire of the American corporate structure, it’s easy to see why.
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