The topic of work has long been the subject of academic study. Indeed, from their beginnings in the 18th and 19th centuries, the disciplines of economics and sociology accorded labor, production, and ...

Trade unions and progressive movements rightly demand better wages and working conditions for employees to improve society. But the question of what good work actually means is rarely asked. And how ...

The recent debate over President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill Act has laid bare the fundamental divide between Republicans and Democrats on the role of the individual in society at large, — a ...

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In honor of Labor Day, I offer this stirring quotation from the Scottish essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle: All true Work is sacred; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labour, there is ...