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Daniel Eltringham Before, no one asked whether or not you were a capitalist; so now get on with your work –El Che We’ve put together what we feel is the best glossary of flexible working terms and concepts you’ll find anywhere on the Internet. From ‘Activity-based work settings’ to ‘Zero-hours contracts’, it’s all there –Glossary…
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by Shane Burley. Ngo’s new book, Unmasked: Inside the Radical Left’s Attempt to Destroy America, published by Hachette, consists of this process extended to an agonizing length, all hamfistedly contorted into a mythology that Ngo has cultivated out of his own imaginative grievances.
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by Matt Mitchell. my body is sometimes just a body living inside the body of a car traveling west. a swell of mitochondria with a plywood ass that can’t hold jeans up. a gas-efficient car dashboard heating up out-of-state thighs…
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by Leijia Hanrahan. i had a dream that che guevara acquired an additional dimension or two, / helped himself down from the monument at revolution square, and jumped
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by Terra Oliveira. may our work / be God’s work / and may the work of God
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by Caitlin Myers. Knoxville has a few nicknames attached to it. Developers and other fancy sorts of people tend to prefer ‘The Marble City,’ because it sounds noble, even though all it means is that people used to dig up marble here and haul it to D.C. to build imitation Greek government buildings.
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by John Tormey. Snow duty will extract a price all its own. The hours spent in the cold, the wear inflicted by muscling thousands of pounds of snow, the subtraction of quality years from the end of life. It’s a palpable cost, felt deepest in the ankles, elbows, knees, the memory. Any point of connection.
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by Matt Hartman. On February 11, 1957, Fernand Iveton was guillotined in Algiers, in the yard of Barberousse Prison. A military court had convicted him of “attempting to destroy, with an explosive substance, a building that is inhabited or used for habitation.”
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by Mathilda Cullen. The doctor told me she would never speak / to me again. “I can’t believe I have you,” she said to me. / It was a miracle, a communism collapsing speech altogether.
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by C.M. Lewis. Worker militancy and the labor movement are in the public eye in a way not seen in decades. In the past three years, workers have struck—at times illegally—in huge numbers, especially in the education sector.
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