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The Jungle
The story finds that with "all the dazzling new-economy rhetoric notwithstanding, it turns out workers sometimes still need protection." The author supports the notion by focusing on recent Amazon layoffs in Seattle, and questions the perception of the company as "a worker's paradise." The investigation sheds light on Amazon's anti-union campaign. One of the main conclusions is that "Amazon's workers could have used a lot of the same protections as old economy workers, because ... they were a lot like old-economy workers." The analyses finds that "many new-economy jobs still revolve around basic service and support work."
Tags: Internet; dot-coms; information age; workforce; jobs; labor laws; Amazon
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Digital Diplomas
This article examines the growing popularity of people earning their diplomas on the Internet and asks the question, "just what is a dot-com degree worth?"
Tags: Internet; technology; college diploma; Internet classes
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Exlusive: Arthur Laffer Is No Laughing Matter for Some
The Street.Com describes "a pattern of legal conflict between famed Reagan administration economist Arthur Laffer and several small companies that appointed Laffer to their boards of directors." The story explains "the way Laffer ... has offered to sit on the boards of start-up and dot-com companies in return for shares in the companies stock," but often "the arrangements ended badly with Laffer leaving the boards or being forced out..." The reporter reveals Laffer's demands for new management at the companies that appointed him to their boards, and his penchant for filing lawsuits.
Tags: diskette; economics; boards of directors; SEC; courts; lawyers
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Dot-Com Liquidator
As online retailers go belly-up, new businesses called "dot-com liquidators" are popping up, which resell the failing Internet companies' goods after buying them at big discounts. The story profiles dot-com liquidator Patrick Byrne and his company Overstock.com, in particular
Tags: dot-com; e-tailer; start-up; liquidator; patrick byrne; overstock
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The fall of a dot-com
Nearly a year after experiencing a tremendous IPO, online retailer Value America is now on the brink of collapse after founder Craig Winn attracted investors and vendors and spent millions of company money.
Tags: Internet; online business; Value America; Craig Winn