In her riveting new essay collection, Alexandra Robbins explores the myriad challenges facing today’s educators by deftly weaving the stories of three American teachers facing radically different school environments. Andrew Tarantola, Senior Reporter $15 at Amazon Elon Muskīetween the low pay, high stress, newly legislated legal pitfalls and ever-present threat of mass gun violence, it’s a wonder that people continue to pursue careers in education at all. Follow along as bands of renegade workers staged daring raids to destroy the symbols of their economic exploitation - the machines that men like Richard Arkwright sought to replace them with - won over the support of commoners and 19th-century English nobility alike, and even helped birth the science fiction genre. In Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech - one of the best books I've read this year - LA Times tech reporter Brian Merchant lays bare the inhumane cost of capitalism wrought by the industrial revolution and celebrates the workers who stood against those first tides of automation: the Luddites. Never mind the fact that his 24-hour production lines were operated by boys as young as seven pulling 13-hour shifts. Arkwright is credited with developing a means of forming cotton fully into thread - technically he didn't actually invent or design the machine, but developed the overarching system in which it could be run at scale - and spinning that success into financial fortune. You didn't actually believe all those founder's myths about tech billionaires like Bezos, Jobs and Musk pulling themselves up by their bootstraps from some suburban American garage, did you? In reality, our corporate kings have been running the same playbook since the 18th century when Lancashire's own Richard Arkwright wrote it.
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