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__Work as labor—exhausting, exploitative, but performed with and for others—fades into the background of work as the acquisition of self.__ Whether one is an actor, insurance adjuster, college professor, or barista, the key to making your day job something more than drudgery— the way to make it your “life’s work”—is to embrace it as your passion.
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John Patrick Leary
Given the role of Britain, the United States and various European countries in facilitating illicit flows by building and maintaining the global tax haven system, and in light of the role that the WTO plays in making it difficult for customs officials to clamp down on mispricing, it seems a bit strange that rich countries appear in corruption-free yellow on the Transparency International map.
Taylor’s distinctive contribution was to articulate a full-scale managerial imperative for increased job control, to be implemented primarily through deskilling. Hence, within Taylorism, Braverman maintained, “lies a theory which is nothing less than the explicit verbalization of the capitalist mode of production.”
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Harry Braverman
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