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First it was the “Great Resignation.” Then it was “nobody wants to work anymore.” Now it’s “quiet quitting.” Yet it seems like no one wants to talk about what I see as the root cause of America’s economic malaise — work under contemporary capitalism is fundamentally flawed. As a political

What if the best parts of two competing visions for a solution were brought together?

What if the best parts of two competing visions for a solution were brought together?

Heres one way to alleviate their malaise.

Heres one way to alleviate their malaise.

Neither Aaron Benanav’s Automation and the Future of Work nor Sarah Jaffe’s Work Won’t Love You Back was written with the pandemic in mind but together they serve as an indispensable guide to the broader dynamics of work in the contemporary moment.

American workers take 14 days off a year on average. Their counterparts elsewhere get up to twice as much.

Last spring, Republican governors in a dozen states, including New Hampshire, prematurely terminated the additional $300 per month unemployment benefit, paid for by the federal government stimulus program. Republicans claimed this bonus made workers...

Gabe Blanc '23 shows how child labor, particularly in the Global South, is a feature of the capitalist system, not merely an aberration.

Critisticuffs and Gruppen discuss Universal Basic Income (also known as Citizens income, Citizens Wage etc) and critique the idea from an anti-authoritarian left position as fundamentally inadequate and mistaken.