The Straight Story on Farming
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.
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The European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic Income
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).
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 46
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?”
‘The future sucks’: why the work you love won’t love you back
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…
Transforming Work, Reimagining Education
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.
In Which There Is Work
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.
Review – Work Won’t Love You Back
Love builds social movements. It is the connective tissue of collective action. And its potential is revolutionary.
Resources for a better future: Work
As Stefania Barca argues, we need to liberate ourselves from work, but also liberate work itself.
Make life, not work: democratizing, decommodifying and remediating existence
Democratizing and decommodifying work, and remediating the environment are essential to sustain life on this planet. However, this cannot be done through limiting ourselves to well-worn social democratic thinking.