Video/ Design & Fashion Fast fashion: for an e-commerce model in China, 150 outfits in 13 hours is a day’s work 6 minutes
Video/ Work The techno dystopia of a Slovenian glass factory is a timeless mashup of people and machines 14 minutes
Video/ Nature & Environment How the vast powers of the sea shape life on a sacred peninsula in Oaxaca, Mexico 21 minutes
Essay/ Work Utopia now In 1890 William Morris imagined a world free from wage slavery. Thanks to technology, his vision is finally within reach Vasilis Kostakis & Wolfgang Drechsler
Video/ History ‘For one demented summer, it was Mecca’ – the rise and fall of a Yukon gold rush town 22 minutes
Essay/ Work The last whalers Men from the Shetland Islands worked the whaling expeditions to the Antarctic. Until the whales were gone Lyndsie Bourgon
Video/ Dance & Theatre The extraordinary physical and mental demands of performing Sichuan opera 5 minutes
Essay/ Ethics The outsider As a philosopher, I can’t conceal my class. But I prefer the counsel of my grandmother to platitudes about ‘impostor syndrome’ Amy Olberding
Video/ Work A migrant worker’s daily circus-like balancing act is a surreal reflection of China’s economy 4 minutes
Video/ Love & Friendship Two hot-air balloon repairmen on crafting a life of small pleasures and great contentment 5 minutes
Video/ Old Age & Death ‘It’s not for everyone. It’s a ministry to me.’ A funeral director on the business of death 5 minutes
Idea/ Meaning & the Good Life If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living? Andrew Taggart
Video/ History of Technology Soon the particular solitude of the lighthouse keeper will be lost to automation 4 minutes
Video/ Memoir ‘Life is to plow.’ A reflection on struggle, success and the impermanence of both 6 minutes
Video/ Agriculture The once-in-a-decade harvest of cork requires blunt force and tender care in equal measure 4 minutes
Video/ Agriculture One man’s quixotic quest to bring American bison to his Scottish homeland 16 minutes
Video/ Sports & Games With inspiring perseverance, Julio juggles late work nights with elite marathon training 9 minutes
Essay/ Work The quitting economy When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit Ilana Gershon
Essay/ Work The future is emotional Human jobs in the future will be the ones that require emotional labour: currently undervalued and underpaid but invaluable Livia Gershon
Essay/ Economics What is human capital? Human capital theory was invented as an ideological weapon in the Cold War. Now it is helping to Uberise the world of work Peter Fleming
Video/ Nature & Environment In the murky waters of climate change, native fishers are among the most vulnerable 7 minutes
Video/ Poverty & Development Pride, poverty and rapture in an Appalachian mining community where the jobs are gone 25 minutes
Video/ Demography & Migration The interned and the undocumented: the immigration spectrum in the US today 7 minutes
Video/ Stories & Literature The welder-turned-poet who fell in love with words in a Glasgow shipyard 11 minutes