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The cultural critic Andrew Ross points out that this new model of artists/ workers—unlike Marx’s “industrial reserve army” of the unemployed, always available to keep the cost of labor low—creates a reserve volunteer army of people who will work for fun.56 Here, Ross asserts, we have not just a low-wage reserve industrial labor force, but a no-wage
... See moreMicki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
The removal of economic security for working people dissolves those boundaries—eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will—so that we are left with twenty-four potentially monetizable hours that are sometimes not even restricted to our time zones or our sleep cycles.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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Douglas Rushkoff • Artificial Creativity
Through feminism’s theoretical and practical mobilisations, the category or concept of ‘work’ itself was called into question.
Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)

À partir de 1980, il en est convaincu : l’évolution technologique ne va pas dans le sens d’une réappropriation possible, mais d’une diminution rapide de la quantité de travail socialement nécessaire, sous l’effet de gains de productivité énormes liés aux développements de l’informatique. Les techniques industrielles ne doivent pas être systématique
... See moreFrançoise GOLLAIN • André Gorz et l'écosocialisme (French Edition)
All I did in the essay was to pursue this insight: whenever you find someone doing something in the name of economic efficiency that