Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 19 12:43:10 PST 2002


Chuck0 wrote:


>Miles Jackson wrote:
>
>> Kel hits on the thing that bugs me here: if we keep using the term
>> "work" to refer to wage labor, we make invisible a huge amount of the
>> social labor that is necessary for our society to thrive, and we take
>> the people who do it for granted. "Everybody should work, no shirkers":
>> fine, as long as we realize that work is far, far, more than wage labor,
>> even in an industrial society.
>
>Of course, there is always Bob Black's "The Abolition of Work," which
>sums up my feelings and thinking about work. I've also found that
>Wendell Berry's writings on work to be valuable. There is work of the
>"wage slavery' variety and work of the variety that meets basic needs
>and/or is personally satisfying.

So no more computers, Chuck?

Doug



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