By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Welcome to the dehumanizing world of scientific management, where business gurus and middle managers view workers as resources, and where a cult-like devotion to productivity has invaded almost all facets of daily life.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Are production and distribution chokepoints becoming the springboard for better working conditions and pay?
By Marzena Zukowska, Red Pepper
Love builds social movements. It is the connective tissue of collective action. And its potential is revolutionary.
By Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Open Democracy
The world’s 2,153 billionaires currently control more wealth than the bottom 4.6 billion people (60% of the planet’s population) precisely because the worldwide exploitation of working classes has thrown up perverse patterns of maldistribution.
By Luis Razeto Migliaro, Grassroots Economic Organizing
The emergence of solidarity in labor comes to coincide with the broader process of recuperation of the rich meaning and content inherent to work itself.
![Two girls wearing banners with slogan "ABOLISH CH[ILD] SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish. one carrying American flag; spectators stand nearby. Probably taken during May 1, 1909 labor parade in New York City.](https://www.resilience.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/800px-Abolish_child_slavery-384x253.jpg)
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
With the dawn of industrialization, democracy in work went into reverse. What's important here is that most people know little or nothing of this history or cannot conceive of it in terms of loss of liberty. They simply accept the arrangements in their jobs as somehow ordained in a nominally democratic society, as how work must necessarily be organized.