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A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

Going for Broke turns to the real experts on economic hardship in America: those who live it.

Arnold Lobel’s quietly radical creations speak to those who don’t want to live a predetermined life.

David Graeber Bullshit Jobs A Theory May 15, 2018, originally published. ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many...

Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living

In "Henry at Work," John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle argue that the man who once retreated to Walden Pond can help us rethink life in the modern office.

On anti-work politics and the meaning of Shabbat

As part of the exhibition Confronting Carbon Form, this symposium gathers architects, designers, scholars, historians, and theorists to identify and study the specific spatial concepts of that order.

To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.

The potential of automation to reduce working hours is inconsistent with the profit motives of capitalist companies, writes Alec Stubbs. By Alec Stubbs  UMass Boston First it was the “Great Resignation.” Then it was “nobody wants to work anymore.” Now it’s “quiet quitting.” Yet it s