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Readings on Work

PERSONAL VIEWS OF WORK


Dave Eggers Serve or Fail
Lars Eighner On Dumpster Diving
Seamus Heaney Digging
Philip Levine What Work Is
Lorrie Moore How to Become a Writer
George Orwell Shooting an Elephant
Scott Russell Sanders The Inheritance of Tools
Virginia Woolf Professions for Women

WORKING FOR WAGES


Sherman Alexie The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Dalton Conley Tip Jars and the New Economy
Michael S. Dukakis and Daniel J. B. Mitchell Raise Wages, Not Walls
Barbara Ehrenreich Serving in Florida
Amitai Etzioni Working at McDonald's
Molly Ivins Living Wage Fight Goes On
John Updike A & P

THEORIZING ABOUT WORK


Christopher Clausen Against Work
Peter F. Drucker Beyond the Information Revolution
Milton Friedman Social Responsibility of Business and Labor
Thomas L. Friedman Globalization: The Super-Story
Anthony Giddens Globalisation
Karen Kornbluh Win-Win Flexibility
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels The Communist Manifesto
Michael Novak The Moral Heart of Capitalism
Felice N. Schwartz Management Women and the New Facts of Life
Jeremy Seabrook What Are "Class" and "Inequality"?

ISSUES, PROBLEMS, AND DILEMMAS


William Branigin Sweatshops Are Back
Curtis Chang Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority
Stephanie Coontz A Nation of Welfare Families
William Deresiewicz The Dispossessed
Naomi Klein No Logo
Jonathan Kozol The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society
Bill McKibben Pie in the Sky
Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers The Limits to Growth
Robert Pinsky Shirt
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