The Amazon article, why the extreme reactions? | Chronotope

The revelations aren’t surprising, this is pretty standard startup fare. Or really just the way the economy is going in general – more work, less pay (http://www.motherjones.com/…/speed-up-american-workers… ) and increasingly terrible work-life balance ( http://qz.com/…/americans-dont-just-work-longer-hours…/ ), and less regular work (http://www.theguardian.com/…/gig-economy-silicon-valley… ). Which sort of gets to another point, that this mediated work brutality is…

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More and more Americans are outside the labor force entirely. Who are they? | Pew Research Center

According to the October jobs report, more than 92 million Americans — 37% of the civilian population aged 16 and over — are neither employed nor unemployed, but fall in the category of “not in the labor force.” That means they aren’t working now but haven’t looked for work recently enough to be counted as unemployed….

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Americans Not In The Labor Force Rise To Record 93.8 Million, Participation Rate At 1977 Level | Zero Hedge

While the Fed is digesting what the X-13 Arima seasonally adjusted payrolls number means for the future of US interest rates, the devastation of the US labor force continues. In what was an “modestly” unpleasant July payrolls report, yet somewhat better than June’s flagrant disappointment, the fact is that the number of Americans not in…

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Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace – The New York Times

Photo Amazon employees entering the company’s offices in Seattle. It recently became the most valuable retailer in the country. Credit Ruth Fremson/The New York Times SEATTLE — On Monday mornings, fresh recruits line up for an orientation intended to catapult them into Amazon’s singular way of working. They are told to forget the “poor habits”…

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Two more Uber drivers arrested in Hong Kong as local taxi drivers prepare to launch rival service | South China Morning Post

Two more Uber drivers were arrested yesterday, just hours after Hong Kong’s police chief warned of a further crackdown on the car-hailing service, following the arrests of five drivers and three company staff on Tuesday. As the battle for control of the city’s roads plays out, it emerged the police joined a meeting during which…

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