Tag: Nice Work If You Can Get It

Favorite Poem: Andrew Ross

The Day Lady Died by Frank O’Hara It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine… READ MORE

The Precarious Employment Podcast

From KPFA’s Against the Grain: Download program audio (mp3, 41.02 Mbytes) The era of stable, secure, steady work with one employer is over. According to Andrew Ross, author of the… READ MORE

A Nice New Yorker If You Can Get It

Andrew Ross’s Nice Work If You Can Get It appears in the Briefly Noted section of this week’s New Yorker (June 29th). According to Ross, job insecurity became commonplace long… READ MORE

BookTV and GRITtv

Some video for you to peruse, the first courtesy of GRITtv: Over the last couple of decades millions of Americans have dispensed with convention and embraced a non traditional work… READ MORE

Diane Rehm Tackles the Recession

Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times appeared yesterday on the Diane Rehm show. Listen to the podcast here! Unemployment… READ MORE