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Tag Archives: Labor
Luddism and Economic Ideology
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Smithsonian Magazine has a very good feature on the Luddites, well worth a read. There are many elements you just don’t read in many economic histories; for example, the 40-hour work week was not brought down … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged 40 Hour Work Week, 5 Day Workweek, Adam Smith, automation, capitalism, Chris Dillow, economic inequality, Economics, Economism, James Kwak, Kirkpatrick Sale, Labor, London, Luddism, Luddites, Neoclassical Economics, Rebels Against the Future, Revolution, Robots, technology, Wealth Gap, Wealth of Nations, Work
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Saturday Matinee: Obsolete
Source: Truthstream Media The Future Doesn’t Need Us… Or So We’ve Been Told. With the rise of technology and the real-time pressures of an online, global economy, humans will have to be very clever – and very careful – not … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Film, Financial Crisis, Labor, Philosophy, Saturday Matinee, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Corporate Globalization, culture, Documentary Film, economic crisis, Economics, Global Economy, Internet, Labor, Robots, science, social control, society, technology, Work
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The United States of Work
Employers exercise vast control over our lives, even when we’re not on the job. How did our bosses gain power that the government itself doesn’t hold? By Miya Tokumitsu Source: New Republic Work no longer works. “You need to acquire … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Labor, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged automation, Corporations, corporatocracy, culture, Economics, economy, Elizabeth Anderson, Employment, financial crisis, Government, James Livingston, Labor, Postcapitalism, Postwork Society, technology, UBI, Universal Basic Income, Welfare, Work
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Trump proposes huge hike in military and police spending
By Patrick Martin Source: WSWS.org The Trump administration sent instructions to federal agencies Monday proposing a $54 billion increase in spending for the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, to be offset by $54 billion in … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Authoritarianism, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Empire, Geopolitics, Militarization, military spending, news, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Agriculture, Border Wall, CIA, Corporate Welfare, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Domestic Spending, Education, empire, EPA, food stamps, geopolitics, Health and Human Services, Housing, Infrastructure, John McCain, Labor, Medicaid, Medicare, Mick Mulvaney, Militarization, Military, Military Budget, military spending, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, Pentagon, police, police state, Ruling Elite, Social Security, taxpayer dollars, Transportation, Trump, Trump Administration, U.S. Foreign Policy, Urban Development
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Against meaninglessness and precarity: the crisis of work
By David Frayne Source: ROAR Magazine If work is vital for income, social inclusion and a sense of identity, then one of the most troubling contradictions of our time is that the centrality of work in our societies persists even when … Continue reading
Posted in culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Benefits Street, capitalism, David Frayne, Dr. Adam Perkins, Income Inequality, Labor, Meaningless Work, Precariat, Precarity, technology, The Welfare Trait, Towards a Post-Work Society, unemployment, Work
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Fuck Work
Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore? By James Livingston Source: aeon Work means everything to us Americans. For centuries – since, say, 1650 – we’ve believed that … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, History, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged automation, capitalism, Corporate Globalization, Corporations, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Employment, End of Work, Great Recession, Job Market, Jobs, Labor, recession, society, technology, Work
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Review: The Utopia of Rules, by David Graeber
By Jonathan Woolley Source: Gods & Radicals Reading a book about bureaucracy may not sound like an exciting way to spend a weekend off with my family. And yet, having just started David Graeber’s latest – A Utopia of Rules … Continue reading
Posted in anarchism, conditioning, culture, Economics, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged A Utopia of Rules, Anarchism, Authority, Bureaucracy, Comics, Corporatism, David Graeber, Economics, Labor, Liberalism, media, Neoliberalism, police, Power, technology, Violence, Work
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“Why Don’t You Just Get a Better Job” and Other Dumb Shit People Say to Low-Income Earners Stuck in Precarious Work
By Chloe Ann King Source: The Hampton Institute For most of my working life I have been stuck in the hospitality industry which is lowly paid, painfully precarious and poorly regulated. In New Zealand, where I live, hospitality employers mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Aotearoa, Dystopia, Economic Disparity, Economic Insecurity, Economics, Financial Crash, Hillary Clinton, income gap, Labor, Minimum Wage, New Zealand, Poverty, Precariat, Service Worker, Tony Robbins, Unions, Wealth Inequality, Work
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