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How long we work is not a measurement of heroism or commitment. Liberation from record keeping allows us to focus on meaningful activity.
Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
Melissa Gregg
However much hope they inspire amid the catastrophe of the present, the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic notwithstanding, __disruptive protests in our era have so far lacked a vision of a wholly different world: in which the infrastructures of capitalist societies are brought under collective control, work is reorganized and redistributed, scarcity is overcome through the free giving of goods and services, and our human capacities are correspondingly enlarged as new vistas of existential security and freedom open up.__ Unless social struggles organize themselves around this historic task, the conquest of production, they will not break through to a new synthesis of what it means to be a human being—to live in a world devoid of poverty and billionaires, of stateless refugees and detention camps, and of lives spent in drudgery, which hardly offer a moment to rest, let alone dream.
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
The epicentre of the developmentalist movement was the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, based in Chile. Founded in 1948, the Commission was headed by the progressive Argentinian economist Raúl Prebisch, one of the thinkers who developed the theory of dependency and unequal exchange.
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