Alexandra Michel

University of Pennsylvania

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Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and author of Bullish on Uncertainty: How Organizational Cultures Transform Participants

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More stores are requiring workers to show up on Thanksgiving Day, and Americans already work longer and harder than anyone else in the industrialized world.

America: the Nation of Workaholics

More stores are requiring workers to show up on Thanksgiving Day, and Americans already work longer and harder than anyone else in the industrialized world.

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