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Effortless for Whom?

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From RN Collins, selected work

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Research cited

U.S. Senate HELP Committee majority staff, The "Injury-Productivity Trade-off" (December 2024), 160 pages help.senate.gov
Corporate-Wide Stipulation and Settlement Agreement, OSHRC Docket Nos. 23-0298 et al. (fully executed, public-facing) osha.gov
UC San Diego library record for Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother (Basic Books, 1983) cclib.ucsd.edu
UC Press page for Hochschild, The Managed Heart, and The Conversation explainer — source 1 of 2 ucpress.edu
UC Press page for Hochschild, The Managed Heart, and The Conversation explainer — source 2 of 2 theconversation.com
Cass R. Sunstein, Sludge Audits, Behavioural Public Policy (Cambridge Core abstract page) cambridge.org

Other sources

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1: The Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, photographed on May 23, 2017 by Tony Webster, with the Amazon Fulfillment sign and the main entryPhoto: Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0Photo record
Slide 2: Illustrative photo: one cardboard box riding a conveyor belt in a large distribution center, with more boxes receding behind it, at the UPS Lone Star hub in Arlington, Texas, August 2020Photo: USDA, public domainPhoto record
Slide 3: Illustrative photo: a person in a blue t-shirt, shown from the neck down, taping shut a cardboard box on a wooden bench with a second box beside it, 2022Photo: Meanwell Packaging, CC BY 2.0Photo record
Slide 4a: Illustrative photo: the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., a long limestone Senate building seen from the street with bollards in front, 2024Photo: ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, croppedPhoto record
Slide 4b: Illustrative photo: the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., seen from an arcade walkway with part of Alexander Calder's black mobile Mountains and Clouds, an Architect of the Capitol photograph posted in 2017Photo: Architect of the CapitolPhoto record
Slide 5: The Amazon Spheres on the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle, seen from 6th Avenue with office towers behind, in an April 2020 photograph by SounderBrucePhoto: SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record
Slide 6: The entrance of the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., with DEPARTMENT OF LABOR lettered above the colonnade and a fountain in front, in a 2007 Department of Labor photographPhoto: U.S. Department of LaborPhoto record
Slide 7a: Illustrative photo: a height-adjustable sit/stand desk with a monitor and a laptop on it, photographed from above in a home office, 2023Photo: U3145851, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record
Slide 7b: Illustrative photo: a maroon bound court docket book standing on a shelf at the Madison Parish Courthouse in Tallulah, Louisiana, its cover stamped COURT DOCKET BOOK 25 MADISON PARISH SHERIFF'S DEPT., photographed in 2026Photo: Ktkvtsh, CC BY 4.0Photo record
Slide 8: Illustrative photo: a red emergency brake handle under a hinged red cover on a gray-green panel of a Finnish train, with a label reading Hätäjarru, Nödbroms and Emergency brake, 2017Photo: Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record
Slide 9a: Illustrative photo: a long empty aisle between blue and yellow pallet racking in a high-bay storage hall at the ICE maintenance depot in Cologne-Nippes, Germany, before it was stocked, 2018Photo: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record
Slide 9b: Illustrative photo: a yellow company safety sign reading OFF-THE-JOB Safety FOR YOU with a red fist in place of the O in YOU and a small red digital display beneath it, on a roadside at a DuPont Teijin Films site with a concrete water tower behind, photographed in 2023Photo: Hejnjahns, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record
Slide 10: Illustrative photo: a parked electric cargo bike with a covered, brightly branded cargo trailer on a paved sidewalk in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 2025, no riderPhoto: MMFE, CC BY-SA 4.0Photo record

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