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Q&A with Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, author of Handcrafted Careers

As workers attempt new modes of employment in the era of the Great Resignation, they face a labor landscape that is increasingly uncertain and stubbornly unequal. With Handcrafted Careers, sociologist Eli Revelle Yano Wilson dives headfirst into the everyday lives of workers in the craft beer indust
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Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information

By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information AgeThis post was originally published on The Conversation.The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has rece
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Q&A with Julie Guthman, author of The Problem with Solutions

Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finit
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