In my history there were these extraordinary guys, men and women, all immigrants, passionate people, who believed a great, humane kind of America existed–and when it didn’t, they decided to make up the difference. – Herb Gardner, author of A Thousand Clowns Although I can’t find their comment now, I know someone recommended I watch…
Here on Abolish Work I try to focus on as many intersecting issues with work as possible. One of those issues has been play, another has been time poverty and still another has been excessive work hours in the US. Another obvious offshoot of all of these intersections is the way that work affects women.…
I’ve written before about so-called “flexible work”. This is work that while is intended to help the worker is usually not decided by the workers themselves. Instead, we have systematic patterns of authority and abuse going unchecked. All in the hopes of reforming things seen as bugs rather than features. Getting more flexible schedules would…
Original can be found here and credit to my friend Outcide Catt for finding this! Before we can answer this question, we must ask: what is play? Play is the antithesis of work. Work is the art of an exploitative science. It tugs at the reigns of capital, conducting its movements, speed and flow, carrying…