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Making Fun of Work New reality shows on TV entertain you with other wage slaves' travails...
...book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to do a series of low-wage jobs on the theory that the best way to write about life at $6 an hour is to live it. If only Ehrenreich had pitched the idea to TLC. Instead, the network produced the more capitalist-friendly job-switch series Now Who's Boss? (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), in which CEOs do drudge work at their own companies, critiqued by their employees. For Tisch, flipping omelets and checking in customers was not just educational but good advertising as well. "We're not as large...
Demonstrations for curricular change and a Living Wage haven’t always been popular. But strike students where their hearts—err, that is, stomachs—are, and they don’t just get mad. They get organized. Food politics have graduated to a whole new level here at Harvard, where students upset with unruly frozen yogurt machines and premature grille closures are demanding more from their dining halls...
...many ways, Christina was a step ahead of me. She, not I, was the true creative force behind our fantastical endeavors. I wanted to dress up as Greek gods, but she wanted to wage the Trojan War with our dolls, still wet with Tempera paint. I wanted to do watercolor, she wanted to recreate a Julian Schnabel painting with her mother’s good plates. Christina’s boundless imagination led us both forward...
...mind, extremely dubious that the best use of Harvard’s resources right now would be to follow the advice of the PSLM website and, in a state where the minimum wage is $6.75 per hours, increase the starting salary of all dining hall workers from $10.85 to the Cambridge “living wage” figure of $11.11. Nor is pledging to protect the job of every single HCL employee. Still, many would argue—not without passion or clarity—that improving labor conditions would be a better way to spend Harvard?...