WORKING

Working. It's what most of us do for half our waking lives. It's how we feed and clothe ourselves and how we support our families. It shapes our sense of who we are, and of where we fit in the scheme of things.

Working is also what connects us. Almost everything around us is the product of human labor—much of it performed in faraway places, by people we will never meet.

Each WORKING profile brings us deep into the life of a single worker in the global economy—real people with real families, real struggles, real dreams, and real jobs.

The project has created an interactive tool called the Worker Browser (http://working.homelands.org) to give members of the public a chance to share and compare their own work experiences. Audio, photos and reporter's notebooks for the profiles are available there.