In Make Your Own Job, Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on top of work—and at what cost.

Even as the pandemic continues to alter our work and education patterns, Labor Day still serves as marker of the transition from one season to the next. It began as a day of celebration of the ...

The Declaration proclaimed all men created equal, yet the new nation’s economy depended on enslaved labor in the South and indentured servitude in the North. This contradiction would shape American ...

In 1812, as English textile workers smashed the machines they believed were stealing their livelihoods, newspapers and Parliament framed the uprising starkly: machines versus men. Two centuries later, ...

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week. Here is a history of work in ...

Much is being written on how COVID-19 has changed work. Comparatively little is being written on how the pandemic has changed academic work. Perhaps the reason for a relative dearth of analysis of the ...