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As socialist feminism usefully highlights, capitalism is dedicated to ensuring that as much vital labor as possible goes uncompensated. Fauxtomation must be seen as part of that tendency.
Astra Taylor • Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
Ultimately, the aim of reclaiming work from capital is to create a radically different vision of work. Rather than the current system that governs through excess financial incentives for a select few and coercion for everybody else, work could be reformulated as a more democratic endeavour whereby we collectively create the things we want in societ
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Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Determined to unshackle market forces from the heavy hand of the state and the millstone of “tax and spend,” the classes that led this bloc aimed to liberalize and globalize the capitalist economy. What that meant, in reality, was financialization: dismantling barriers to, and protections from, the free movement of capital; deregulating banking and
... See moreNancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
(This kind of scheme is currently being pioneered in Scandinavia, where governments follow the motto “Protect workers, not jobs.”)
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Fou ou esclave, est-ce là le choix de l’homme ? »
Tom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être libre: Dans un monde absurde (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
a wage is not just a bit of money but is the expression of the power relation between capital and the working class.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
Is bringing coffee to your boss and chatting with him about his marital problems secretarial work or is it a personal favor? Is the fact that we have to worry about our looks on the job a condition of work, or is it the result of female vanity?
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
In the new world order, capital and property were protected by the death penalty. Human labour was left unprotected. The working man and woman had to manage low pay, hateful conditions, and insecurity of employment. For them, there was neither progress nor improvement.