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Suffragette City: On the Delicacy and Charm of Women

  • Kelcey Parker Ervick
  • September 29, 2020
I assure you chivalry is dead.
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Overtime Changes Could Upend Publishing Industry Norms

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 2, 2016
Changes to overtime laws could have a big impact the way the publishing industry pays staff. Salaried employees earning less than $47,476 a year will be entitled to overtime pay…
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Living Wages Cost More Money

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 22, 2016
A new study has revealed why academic adjuncts are paid so little: living wages would cost universities a lot more money. A new study says that converting adjunct faculty to…
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The Big Idea: Mark Bittman

  • Suzanne Koven
  • November 25, 2015
Suzanne Koven talks to food journalist, author, and activist Mark Bittman about his “Big Idea”—how food has changed in the last fifty years, and how to teach our children to eat better.
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The Adjunct Crisis

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 30, 2015
Nearly a third of all adjunct college faculty live below the poverty line. But its not just low pay that make these jobs miserable: lack of job security, long hours,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Gira Grant

  • Amanda Bloom
  • September 23, 2015
Melissa Gira Grant talks sex workers’ rights, labor politics, the novelty of women’s sexuality, and her book, Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work.
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Fringe Benefits

  • Roxie Pell
  • August 18, 2015
A pervasive, and frustrating, myth is that dancing pays enough for us to stop complaining—that we get paid enough to be cool with however we’re treated. But that’s not true.…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jill Talbot

  • Sarah Einstein
  • July 19, 2015
The author of The Way We Weren’t talks about why she decided to write about being a single mother, the effect it's had on her daughter, and the adjunct crisis.
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Contingent Justice

  • Michelle Vider
  • June 15, 2015
LARB’s Marginalia Review of Books recently published a series of essays on the future of tenure. While addressing the academic labor crisis, the series digs deeply into our wider national…
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World Cup Slaves: A Rumpus Roundup

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 27, 2015
Earlier today, the United States Attorney General charged 14 FIFA officials with 47 counts of corruption, racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering. FIFA is the international association that oversees football…
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Santa’s Little Helper

  • Ian MacAllen
  • December 22, 2014
Santa’s elves spend all year manufacturing low-cost holiday decorations to bring Westerners Christmas cheer. The only problem? They aren’t elves, but Chinese factory workers. The Guardian explores life in the…
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Adjunct Faculty Plan Walk Out

  • Ian MacAllen
  • October 13, 2014
Adjunct college faculty are at last taking a stand against abominable work conditions and low pay by planning a national walk out on February 25, 2015. Unlike their tenured counterparts,…
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