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Books & Arts
Server servitude
Brett Evans
9 April 2021
Books
| Our brains weren’t designed for 126 emails a day
National Affairs
Fully, partly, in principle — or not at all?
Judith Ireland
8 April 2021
Has the government missed another opportunity to genuinely tackle sexual harassment?
National Affairs
A place of greater safety
Jane Goodall
16 March 2021
Does the media’s stress on “rage” really capture what’s driving the resurgent women’s movement?
National Affairs
Build back fairer
Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths and Tom Crowley
8 March 2021
For many women, “Covid normal” isn’t working
International
“Yes, I know we disobey orders. But what else can I do?”
Antonio Castillo
1 March 2021
Informal workers in Latin America search for ways to survive during the pandemic
National Affairs
Dealing with toxic parliaments
Marian Sawer
1 March 2021
Can Australia learn from how legislatures in other countries are tackling the problem?
Books & Arts
Foiled expectations
Kerrie Davies
12 February 2021
Books
| Despite the discouraging news reaching London, hundreds of women ventured from Britain to the colonies in search of work
National Affairs
How casual became predictable
David Peetz
17 December 2020
Casual employment can be fixed, but not the way the government wants to do it
Books & Arts
Is it the end of the office as we know it?
Pilita Clark
30 November 2020
Books
| Or are reports of its demise premature?
Essays & Reportage
Can we make work work?
Andrew Leigh
27 November 2020
Books
| Are myths about jobs stopping us from seeing our working lives clearly?
National Affairs
Out of the office
Andrew Leigh
20 October 2020
Covid-19 could change how we work, for the better and — if we’re not careful — the worse
Essays & Reportage
The end of the city? No, not quite
Sarah Barns
16 September 2020
All of a sudden, proximity to the city may no longer be a critical driver of innovation and job creation
National Affairs
Post-pandemic, here’s the case for a participation income
John Quiggin
18 June 2020
For less than the cost of the Coalition’s Stage 3 tax cuts, Australians can be paid adequately to look for work or participate in socially useful activities
National Affairs
The powerful case for a participation income
John Quiggin
6 May 2020
Now the pandemic has shown “workplace reform” to be a dead end, let’s take JobSeeker and JobKeeper to their logical conclusion
Essays & Reportage
Is history our post-pandemic guide?
Frank Bongiorno
6 May 2020
What can previous crises tell us about the prospects for progressive reform after Covid-19?
Essays & Reportage
What Ada Lovelace can teach us about digital technology
Lizzie O’Shea
9 September 2019
Extract
| How collaborative work can be liberating and effective
Books & Arts
Can “the commons” save us from ourselves?
Tim Dunlop
2 August 2019
Books
| A new pattern of ownership implies a new relationship to work
Essays & Reportage
Expecting the unexpected
Peter Whiteford
30 April 2019
Australia does better than the United States in helping households cope with volatile incomes and unforeseen expenses — but there’s plenty of room for improvement
Essays & Reportage
Computer says no
Ellen Broad
29 April 2019
The hazards of being a woman in technology
Books & Arts
A spectre is haunting the workplace
Brett Evans
11 April 2019
Books
| Employers are exercising an extraordinary level of control — overt and covert — over their workers
Essays & Reportage
Climate change and the new work order
Frances Flanagan
28 February 2019
We won’t solve the biggest challenges if they’re not reflected in the work we do
National Affairs
The political precariat
James Panichi
14 August 2018
More than twenty years before Emma Husar’s alleged misbehaviour, our correspondent had his own experience of the precarious life of a political staffer
Essays & Reportage
In the belly of the beast
Tim Dunlop
16 January 2018
As Uber picks itself up after another legal blow — this time from the European Court of Justice — an ambivalent observer recalls a visit to the company’s Australian head…
Essays & Reportage
A consensus for care
Frances Flanagan
15 May 2017
There are many reasons why work won’t simply disappear, but we need to talk about how it is distributed
Books & Arts
Hundred-year lives
Brett Evans
23 March 2017
Books
| Middle age is expanding, which is mostly good news
National Affairs
A penalty lifted off the economy
Tim Colebatch
24 February 2017
Labor is creating unrealistic expectations by refusing to accept the decision of the umpire it created
Books & Arts
Workless, or working less?
John Quiggin
30 January 2017
Books
| Are we coming to the end of the relatively brief period in which salaried work dominated the economy?
Essays & Reportage
The long, slow demise of the “marriage bar”
Marian Sawer
8 December 2016
It wasn’t until 1966 that women in the Australian public service won the right to remain employed after marriage, overcoming resistance even from their own union
National Affairs
Time’s up for ageing alarmists
John Quiggin
4 October 2016
Mistaken fears about an “ageing population” have stopped us from considering how best to respond to the prospect of longer, healthier lives
Books & Arts
Beyond satire
Jane Goodall
2 February 2016
Television
| Australia is back at work, and
Utopia
remains the best guide to what that can mean in practice, writes
Jane Goodall
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