It's about the BBC and its relationship with big talent, aggression in the workplace, culture wars – and, more prosaically, about whether, in future, a very well-paid presenter fronts Top Gear for the BBC or a similar show about cars for ITV, Sky or even Netflix.
After passing out of childhood and into puberty, I, like most women, entered a three-decade phase of my life that included an adolescence and young adulthood that was peppered with the sexual harassment, sexism in the workplace, mommy wars, pay gaps, and gendered put-downs that few females escape.
Today, however, employers and employees are still at war over workplace injuries, a war marked by mistrust and fear.
As much as "Real Steel" is an escapist pop confection, it forces you to consider the evolving relationship between humans and machines at a time when robots are replacing people in the workplace and in war.
Loss is everywhere: the loss of optimism as experience victory-laps hope; the loss of loved ones to war, workplace accidents or ill health; the loss of a sense of home, going back generations, as families move repeatedly in search of relief from poverty; and the loss of a sense of place in a changing environment, such as when local businesses, which were one major employers, close down.
Let unionism's ethos of solidarity disappear and Americans will find themselves tossed back to a time when the workplace was a war of all against all -- and life on the job was brutal, feral and merciless.
RN With austerity measures about to bite and the right around the world toying with new anti-union legislation, now seems an opportune moment for a series that explores the post-second world war British workplace.
Improbable as it may have seemed for the most famous fighter in the war against workplace discrimination, Pao began consulting for Reddit, of all places, soon after she was fired from Kleiner Perkins in late 2012.
The document was published in January 1944, as a way of showing spies and concerned citizens how they could work to bring down the productivity of important Axis workplaces during the war.
Or "women in the workplace", and violent sex, and war, and who you are?
