The Baffler,  April 11, 2014

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Carefree French people, pictured here not checking their work emails.
Breathless film still courtesy of Martin Pulaski

Accounting School Guide has made a useful (and telling) interactive graphic to demonstrate the practical breakdown of a “living wage” for each state in the nation.

• France, of 35-hour-work-week fame, got a lot of attention yesterday for introducing a rule prohibiting after-work emailing. It’s not a national law; it’s an agreement between a federation of employers and two unions. But it will still affect hundreds of thousands of workers.

• Fifty years later, could the Civil Rights Act pass today? Survey says . . .

• And now for something a little different: writing tips, on the granular, grammatical level, David Foster Wallace (via Kottke.org).

Godard

Carefree French people, pictured here not checking their work emails. Breathless film still courtesy of Martin Pulaski

Accounting School Guide has made a useful (and telling) interactive graphic to demonstrate the practical breakdown of a “living wage” for each state in the nation. • France, of 35-hour-work-week fame, got a lot of attention yesterday for introducing a rule prohibiting after-work emailing. It's not a national law; it's an agreement between a federation of employers and two unions. But it will still affect hundreds of thousands of workers. • Fifty years later, could the Civil Rights Act pass today? Survey says . . . • And now for something a little different: writing tips, on the granular, grammatical level, David Foster Wallace (via Kottke.org).

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