A new book claims to show how the Industrial Revolution changed the way we see the arts, with the result that the arts became more important to the lives of people.Industrialism: How the Transformation of the Industrial World Changed Everything by Andrew Gee, an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, traces…
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HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ is a ‘really big deal’ for us as a business
It’s hard to overestimate how much HBO’s “The Leftover,” a sci-fi drama about a family’s struggle to adapt to a post-apocalyptic future, has changed the way we look at how we work, how we think about technology, and how we create.The series is based on a novella by award-winning author Thomas Harris, who was also…
‘I want my children to be in a factory’: Former Walmart worker shares her story
Boca Raton, Fla.— After a decade of hard work and many months of training, the newest worker in a Walmart store in Florida’s Boca River Valley was finally getting a job this week.The Boca Union School District hired the former Walmarts assembly line worker, and she said she had been working there for four months…