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Manual Labor

World

China's 'Tainted' Cotton

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.

John Sudworth BBC Dec 2020 25min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Smoke at the End of the World"

Construction work, measured in bad habits.

Dustin M. Hoffman DIAGRAM Aug 2020 Permalink

Shop Class as Soulcraft

A call for making a living with your hands.

Matthew B. Crawford The New Atlantis May 2006 30min Permalink