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His 2014 book “The Fissured Workplace” took aim at the ways that employers had been shedding their responsibilities to employees, through franchising arrangements and the hiring of labor subcontractors.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2023

His 2014 book “The Fissured Workplace” explored the ways that employers had been shedding their responsibilities to employees.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2022

Ohio had been shedding jobs, mostly in manufacturing, since January 2000, the fact-checking group noted.

From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2015

Already she had been shedding tears at the meeting with Monica, and now distress overcame her; she sobbed and lamented.

From The Odd Women by Gissing, George

She read his letter with her eyes hardly open, swollen with the tears she had been shedding all night.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Verrall, A. W. (Arthur Woollgar)