{"id":67949,"date":"2019-09-03T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949///wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//article/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//new-economy-labor-work-low-wages-books-20190902/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//"},"modified":"2020-01-07T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T16:53:59","slug":"labor-work-low-wages-books","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949///wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//economy/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//2019/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//09/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//03/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949//labor-work-low-wages-books","title":{"rendered":"What Low-Wage Work Does to Us"},"content":{"rendered":"/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/n

/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/u201cCyborg jobs/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/u201d is the term Emily Guendelsberger uses in her new book, On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane to describe the low-wage, high-stress jobs that make up a large portion/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/u2014something like 47%/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/u2014of employment in the United States. You could say they/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/u2019re jobs determined by algorithms. Cyborg jobs are designed through data analysis to boost profits by getting the maximum out of workers. Staff scheduling is tight to avoid slow periods, so workers spend much of the day rushing to where they/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/u2019re needed. Bathroom breaks are limited and timed. Workers/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/u2019 movements and performance are monitored throughout the day. If they call in sick, they lose pay and maybe even their jobs. But human beings are not robots. Being treated like expendable parts in a gigantic corporate machine makes people stressed, ill, and unhappy. Guendelsberger should know. She took on low-wage cyborg jobs for two years. Then, she took on the big companies that profit from them, like the other writers of fiction and nonfiction here/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/u2014Rob Hart, Heike Geissler, and Alex Gallo-Brown./wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/67949/n

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