Labor Under Capitalism
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Labor Under Capitalism
Because at some level, the mandate to love your work and be happy with it has a very simple and straightforward rationale: the dictate to work more. Love and happiness, these management gurus explain, are endless reservoirs of energy, concentration, and motivation. How do we make ourselves happy and in love with our job? Here is a typical response:... See more
Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work
The hacker class experiences extremes of a winner-take-all outcome of its efforts. On the one hand, fantastic careers and the spoils of some simulation of the old bourgeois lifestyle; on the other hand, precarious and part-time work, start-ups that go bust, and the making routine of our jobs by new algorithms—designed by others of our very own
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ineteconomics.orgUntangling the question of what I want to make from what will sell feels like crawling out of a very deep well.
Marian Bull • When a hobby becomes a job
I know what kind of work it takes to complete a book manuscript, and I want to do that work, but to arrive at the end of it and learn that what I should have been doing instead is flooding the zone on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok? That is fundamentally demoralizing.
Collin Brooke • Unfluence
There is a big difference between “We want to get this strike settled for the good of the US economy” and “We support the workers.”
Hamilton Nolan • Whose Fault Is It?
Not only do today’s platform-based workers exist in a nascent labor category, but their participation is decentralized, making it harder for them to connect with each other. As the industry has matured, and consolidation has led to monopsony power, platform labor has reached a turning point. Platforms are increasingly governing participants’... See more