Workers of the world book 2021
Workers of the world…QUIT?
By Steven Hill, Hans Böckler Stiftung, December 9, 2021
US workers are leaving their jobs in record numbers. Are they newly empowered? Or just taking a break from reality?
US workers of all ages and occupations have been voluntarily quitting their jobs in record numbers. In April 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded a giant surge in the number of people who left their jobs, with just under 4 million workers quitting voluntarily. Then, in July even more people left their job, and in August the quitters hit another record. In August alone, nearly 7 percent of employees in the “accommodations and food services” sector quit their jobs, meaning one in 14 people working at jobs like hotel clerks, restaurant servers and bartenders quit in a single month. 2021 will likely record the largest number of resignations the US has ever seen.
Even before the “Great Resignation,” as it is being called, employment was down due to massive pandemic layoffs, especially in low-paying occupations. Employment in nursing homes is down 15.2 percent from pre-pandemic levels, in child care 10.4 percent, the temporary help sector 8.7 p
Ants: Workers of the World
Nature’s most successful insects captured in remarkable macrophotography
In
Ants
, photographer Eduard Florin Niga brings us incredibly close to the most numerous animals on Earth, whose ability to organize colonies, communicate among themselves, and solve complex problems has made them an object of endless fascination. Among the more than 30 species photographed by Niga are leafcutters that grow fungus for food, trap-jaw ants with fearsome mandibles, bullet ants with potent stingers, warriors, drivers, gliders, harvesters, and the pavement ants that are always underfoot. Among his most memorable images are portraits—including queens, workers, soldiers, and rarely seen males—that bring the reader face-to-face with these creatures whose societies are eerily like our own. Science writer Eleanor Spicer Rice frames the book with a lively text that describes the life cycle of ants and explains how each species is adapted to its way of life.
Ants
is a great introduction to some of the Earth’s most successful creatures that showcases the power of photography to reveal the unseen world all around us.
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2021 book subtitled "Workers of the World" (4)
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Workers of the World
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The first large-scale demonstrations demanding action against the ravages of the Great Depression took place in cities across the country on March 6, 1930 and were organized by the American Communist Party. This photograph captures a gathering in Washington, D.C. preparing for a demonstration in front of the White House the next day.
The multitude of signs reveal the confluence of issues that brought the Communist Party and Black activists together in the early 1930s, but the pairing was not without tensions. The Party initially treated police brutality and lynching as merely class issues. Early Black activists forced the Party to change its approach.
For Black workers, there could be no separation between the struggle for economic justice and freedom from police and mob brutality; they were one and the same.
One of the earliest Black socialists in the U.S., George Washington Woodbey, linked the two in 1905: “In the days of chattel slavery the masters had a patrol force to keep the negroes in their place and protect the interests of the masters. Today the capita