Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

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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Anil Dash anildash.com

Knowledge Work and

Super practical guidance on more effective business/work communication.

And if communities are spaces for belonging, cohorts are spaces for becoming.

Brian Dell • LF11 - Cohort Futures

Community Design

Worldbuilding, for me, was a form of expansive hope—a necessary imagination for being alive.

Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination

Worldbuilding

How Hollywood used the digital transition against workers

Paris Marx disconnect.blog

Labor Under Capitalism

Why We Need the Humanities in Today’s Career-Focused World

Steven Mintz insidehighered.com

Higher Ed Under Capitalism

Variety of work is the next point, and a most important one. To compel a man to do day after day the same task, without any hope of escape or change, means nothing short of turning his life into a prison-torment. Nothing but the tyranny of profit-grinding makes this necessary.

William Morris • William Morris - Useful Work versus Useless Toil

Labor Under Capitalism

Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.

Rogers Brubaker • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents

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.”

Compensation, lack of involvement in decision-making are key workplace stressors

When it comes to the impact of different factors on employee stress levels at work, low salaries (56%, up from 49% in 2019), long hours (54%, up from 46%), and lack of opportunity for growth or advancement (52%, up from 44%) are most commonly reported as very or... See more

Work and Well-being 2021 Survey report

Labor Under Capitalism