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How work got so bad

Why does every new technology seem to make work harder and not easier? In 1974, Harry Braverman published a seminal text, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, ...
PERHAPS the best-known foundational Marxist text (and one of the easiest to read), the Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written jointly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and first published in ...
For Prof. T.K. Oommen, sociology was never a mere assemblage of abstract theories. He regarded it as a scientific instrument to grasp the pulse of a society in constant transition ...
There is a conspiracy theory to explain every major world event. People who rightly hate genocidal Israel see Zionism behind the war on Iran.
The First Novel about the Gig Workers of Kolkata’ by Ashoke Mukhopadhyay, translated from the Bengali by Zenith Roy.
In every index of social development, Kerala stands at the forefront among Indian States. Yet we must not forget that the ...
Some classics dominate conversations more than bookshelves. Their titles signal depth, their quotes circulate widely, yet ...
Zhang Haoxiang presents a critical political economy analysis of how capitalism has evolved in the digital age and deepened its control over people’s lives. It argues that the essence of modern ...
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Only Love Can Set the Looksmaxxer Free

By now, you’ve perhaps heard of looksmaxxers, the young men pursuing extreme physical transformation in the belief that appearance is the sole determinant of social and sexual success. If not, I’m ...
What do the courts need to learn to better serve kids when one parent blocks them from connecting with the other? Source: gstockstudio/Fotosearch Usually in my ...
Willem Marx is a London-based magazine and broadcast journalist with more than two decades of experience, who’s reported in dozens of countries around the world, from Afghanistan to Ukraine, Albania ...