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Thadra Sheridan narrates the experience of waiting morning restaurant tables. Filmed by Jamie DeWolf. Score courtesy of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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"The Second Machine Age," by MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, has gotten a lot of attention for its bold predictions of a forthcoming giant leap forward in the kinds of tasks that smart machines (robots) will be capable of performing. This could have a major impact on the nature of work, the number of jobs, the kinds of jobs, and the kind of society we will have in the future.
After decades of exclusion, home care workers are finally covered by federal minimum wage laws. Anyone who works for social change can learn from how they did it.
While the media is packed with material about consumer rights, there is seldom mention of workers’ rights.
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