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When Unions Fought for the Environment

In a 1998 paper in Environmental History, Scott Dewey argues that unions were a key force for the emerging cause of environmentalism in the 1950s and '60s.
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Reputation Management Lessons from Brand Scandals

What does it take for a brand to regain its customers' trust after something goes badly wrong?
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Can Part-Time Jobs Be Good Jobs?

Brandeis University researcher Hilda Kahne argued for a more thoughtful approach to part-time jobs in a 1994 issue of Social Service Review
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Is Taking Vacation Bad for Your Career?

Is taking time off for vacation bad for career advancement?
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Who Wins When Gambling is Legal?

Is expanding the role of legal gambling in the U.S. wise?
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Before Amazon, There Was FedEx

How FedEx's data-driven approach paved the way for Amazon.
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Ready for the 11-Hour Work Day?

Will the 11-hour work day become a reality?
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Nineteenth-Century Rappers, Corn Laws, and the Rise of Free Trade

The strange intersection of corn laws, rap, poetry, and free trade.
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How the “Boomerang Generation” Sees Itself — and Adulthood

Researchers looked at young people's sense of their identity as adults after moving back home, with results published in Sociological Forum in 2008.
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When Soda Was Virtuous

Soda had a virtuous aura a century ago.