Tara McMullin

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Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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The fact that many American companies are paying paltry wages to workers while lavishing cash on top executives and investors is no happenstance. It's a policy choice. In the United States we have a tax and regulatory environment that rewards that behavior. We can decide to maintain the status quo or change it.

Judd Legum • If the U.S. economy is doing well, why do so many Americans say it's terrible?

Labor Under Capitalism and Economy

Infographic: 6 Guiding Principles To A Trauma-Informed Approach | CDC

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Emotions @ Work

In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.

Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

The Mythical Norm

Why managers’ attempts to empower their employees often fail – and even lead to unethical behavior

Tobias Dennerlein theconversation.com

Emotions @ Work

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Bonnie Burstow journals.sagepub.com

Emotions @ Work

"Toward a Radical Understanding of Trauma and Trauma Work" by Bonnie Burstow:: https://www.academia.edu/download/35938648/burstow2003_radicaltraumawork.pdf

Tacit knowledge is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone .

Think about riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is impossible to teach through descriptions. Sure, you can try to explain what it is you’re doing when you’re cycling, but this isn’t going to be of much help when you’re teaching a kid and they fall into the drain while you’re... See more

Cedric Chin • Why Tacit Knowledge Is More Important Than Deliberate Practice

Knowledge Work

In fact, most of the economic innovations of the last thirty years make more sense politically than economically. Eliminating guaranteed life employment for precarious contracts doesn’t re- ally create a more effective workforce, but it is extraordinarily effective in destroying unions and otherwise depoliticizing labor. The same can be said of... See more

David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber

Economics

we define moral-emotion expression in social-media text as representational expressions of affect that reliably signal, either to others or to the self, that something is relevant to the interests or good of society, as defined by the conceptual knowledge of the expresser.

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The Creator Economy and Media & Culture

View of Errand Runners of Digital Platform Capitalism: The Errand Economy as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Gig Economy | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal...

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Labor Under Capitalism and The Creator Economy

“The gig economy, regardless of workers’ competence, undermines workers’ rights, and makes every job cheap and precarious. Thus, an errand economy can be defined as the process of transforming all workers, regardless of skill level, into people who do the footwork, gruntwork, legwork, and odd jobs under a newly formed working regime.”