By Ståle Wig, Open Democracy
What should be the characteristics of valuable work in the 21st century, both the type that happens in an office and outside it? How should we work in an age where corporate fossil fuel extraction and private consumption is ruining the planet?
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Io, Saturnalia! Today we cast off the orders imposed on us from our parasitic overlords and do as we will. Well, we would if our overlords would allow it.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
This mania for wage work is not just killing us and our planet; it is not even generating any true rewards for anyone. It is empty, useless waste. And it certainly isn’t getting any real work done.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I’ve found it difficult to find a job that does not produce more waste than goods, that does not contribute to pollution and degradation of our planet, and that does not perpetuate social systems of domination and violence.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
As it was in the beginning… farmers need protection from those who have taken privileges, not protection by the military might of those privileged marauders. The least we could do is get the story straight.
By Christos Carras, Philippe Van Parijs, Open Democracy
What a UBI offers is a form of protection that does not trap people either outside employment (thanks to its universality) or inside employment (thanks to its being obligation-free).
By Vicki Robin, Juliet Schor, Resilience.org
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Natalia Savelyeva, Sarah Jaffe, Open Democracy
In Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone, Jaffe draws on her deep experience reporting on workplace organising in the US to explore why love is not a necessary component of our jobs...
By Maria Albà Díaz, Green European Journal
A proper reorganisation should be based on this understanding of work as just one of several realms of life; a life brimming with moments of connection, rest, labour, contemplation, education, and idleness.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
I have strong opinions on the concept of work. Put simply, I do not agree with much of what passes for economic activity in the modern world, beginning with the definition of the word.
By Marzena Zukowska, Red Pepper
Love builds social movements. It is the connective tissue of collective action. And its potential is revolutionary.
By Ekaterina Chertkovskaya, Uneven Earth
As Stefania Barca argues, we need to liberate ourselves from work, but also liberate work itself.