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Burnout in the land of work-life balance Video by Maddy Savage and Benoit Derrier (BBC)
Corporations Are Getting Better at Gutting Worker Protections By Kriston Capps (City Lab)
Employer Power Is About More Than Just Market Concentration By Dwyer Gunn (Pacific Standard)
GM closures: Oshawa needs more than ‘thoughts and prayers’ By Steven High (The Conversation)
Health Care Opens Stable Career Path, Taken Mainly by Women By Dionne Searcey, Eduarso Porter, and Robert Gebeloff (The New York Times)
How shorter workweeks could save Earth By Tim Smedley (BBC)
How these humanities graduates are finding jobs in Silicon Valley By Jeffrey Brown (PBS NewsHour)
In An Industry Rife With Substance Abuse, Restaurant Workers Help Their Own By Tove Danovitch (NPR)
Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn By Austin Carr (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Says By David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
It's Summer, but Where Are the Teenage Workers? By Patricia Cohen and Ron Lieber (The New York Times)
'It's The Stone Age Of Fossil Fuels': Coal Bankruptcy Tests Wyoming Town By Cooper McKim (NPR)
Laid off and owed pay: the Kentucky miners blocking coal trains By Michael Sainato (The Guardian)
Many Manufacturing Workers Don't Make Enough To Keep Off Public Assistance (NPR)
Meet The 74-Year-Old Queen Of Bangkok Street Food Who Netted A Michelin Star By Michael Sullivan (NPR)
Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil By Dave Gilson (Mother Jones)
Part-Time Professors Demand Higher Pay; Will Colleges Listen? By Claudio Sanchez (NPR)
PrecariCorps: Agents for Higher Ed
Producing Poverty: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Production Jobs in Manufacturing (UC Berkeley Labor Center)
Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides: Increase the minimum wage By Andrew Van Dam (The Washington Post)
Robots 'to replace up to 20 million factory jobs' by 2030 By Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC)
Seeing The (Northern) Light: A Temporary Arctic Retirement By Curt Nickish (NPR)
Switching Careers Doesn’t Have to Be Hard: Charting Jobs That Are Similar to Yours By Claire Cain Miller and Quoctrung Bui (The New York Times)
Temp Land: Working in the New Economy (ProPublica)
The Clink Charity
The everything town in the middle of nowhere By Josh Dzieza (The Verge)
The ‘minterns’ taking internships in their 30s By Anna Pazos (BBC)
The Most Common Jobs For The Rich, Middle Class And Poor By Quoctrung Bui (NPR)
The Most Common* Job In Every State By Quoctrung Bui (NPR)
The Myth of Industrial Rebound By Steven Rattner (The New York Times)
The Price of Nice Nails By Sarah Maslin Nir (The New York Times)
The Rise of the Contract Workers (Special Series from NPR)
The Secret To Germany's Low Youth Unemployment By Eric Westervelt (NPR)
The Trauma Floor: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America By Casey Newton (The Verge)
The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind By Binyamin Appelbaum (The New York Times)
They got their dream job away from it all – but what happened next? By Katherine Purvis (The Guardian)
This New Program Aims To Train The Growing Freelance Workforce By Yuki Noguchi (NPR)
U.S. textile Plants Return With Technology, Not a Lot of Workers By Stephanie Clifford (The New York Times)
‘We’re the Workaholics of the World’ Video By The Atlantic (The Atlantic)
Why do one in five home health aides live in poverty? By Milli Legrain (The Guardian)
Work In America (Marketplace and The New York Times)