Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)

Poverty and unemployment become individual failings rather than unwanted features of the economy.

Class is a mechanism that permits some people to make themselves heard but enforces silence on others, denying them power and agency.

Fordism wasn’t a revolution in technology alone – the production line isn’t just a piece of neutral infrastructure. It’s also a technology of control.

One reason for the social undervaluation of particular work is the association of that work with women – the fact that it is understood to be women’s work.

Addressing the problem of work must involve raising the floor rather than making it easier for a tiny number to puncture the ceiling.

That our jobs are one of the only places in which people can express themselves is a travesty. It’s not that people should not find fulfilment in work but, given the time demands that work places on most people, and the destruction of and cuts to other sources of meaning and fulfilment, there are only rare chances for other moments of fulfilment.

Generally, the underlying intention seems to be showing that a given activity requires effort in cases where that effort is hidden.

While leisure and work are often opposed to each other, some argue that the once-discreet activities bleed into each other under contemporary capitalism,

Through feminism’s theoretical and practical mobilisations, the category or concept of ‘work’ itself was called into question.