Working Life

    I actually have been out of town so I wasn’t in NYC when the crane fell on the East Side. But, yesterday, the death toll in the crane collapse reached seven people, six out of seven of them were construction workers. Back in January, it struck me that there was a real increase in […]

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    For a long time, I’ve been getting the sick feeling that working in construction has been getting even more dangerous. Maybe it’s just that the New York media has paid a bit more attention to the phenomena of lots more workers getting killed and injured in the wondrous Mike Bloomberg-generated construction boom in the […]

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    For a long time, I’ve been getting the sick feeling that working in construction has been getting even more dangerous. Maybe it’s just that the New York media has paid a bit more attention to the phenomena of lots more workers getting killed and injured in the wondrous Mike Bloomberg-generated construction boom in the […]

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