Rethink Work

Changing how we think about work

Jacobin

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  • faviconFreedom Under Capitalism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be — Libertarians argue that capitalism is superior to socialism because in capitalism anyone is free to do anything, including start a worker cooperative. In truth, capitalism constrains our options [2024]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Worker Ownership, Worker Rights   
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  • faviconDemocratic Workplaces Make Economies Stronger — Employee-owners who have homes, families, and friends to consider are unlikely to vote to move their businesses out of their communities in response to tariffs or other economic shocks. Nor are they going to run around the globe looking for the cheapest labor force [2025]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Worker Ownership, Worker Rights   
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    Country: CA   
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  • faviconWe Shouldn’t Have to Work This Hard — We can reclaim our time for pursuits that give life meaning: creativity, connection, contemplation, and labors of love. To do it, we’ll need to confront the economic elites who preside over the rat race [2025]
    In: Working hours    
    Topics: Worker Rights, Workism   
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    Country: US   
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  • faviconGet Capitalists’ Grubby Hands Off Our Hobbies — Christian moralists long promoted hobbies as a way to occupy idle hands, bringing the work ethic into our free time. Today hobbies risk turning into side hustles — yet they also point to what work might look like if it wasn’t about making money [2024]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: Leisure, Protestant Work Ethic   
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  • faviconTech Giants Are Building a Dystopia of Desperate Workers and Social Isolation — The on-demand economy was marketed as serving the common good, but it was designed to meet the needs of overworked (and disproportionately well-off) professionals, while taking advantage of the labor of precarious, poorly paid workers who had little control over their work & were denied rights [2022]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: Technofeudalism, Worker Rights   
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  • faviconGreece’s forced six-day workweek exploits workers and will leave the economy worse off in the long run. The policy, pushed by market fundamentalists and driven by economic pressures, and an aging population, serves as a cautionary tale for global labor. Workers in other nations should take this as a lesson and preemptively refuse to follow suit [2024]
    In: Working hours    
    Topics: Productivity, Worker Rights   
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    Country: GR   
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  • faviconFreedom From the Boss – The rules and rights associated with democracy only apply to people’s relationship to their government, not their employer. Citizens in a democracy remain subjects in the workplace — the place where most adults spend a large part of their waking hours [2017]
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Worker Rights, Workplace Dictatorship   
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  • faviconSamsung, the flagship of South Korean capitalism and one of the world’s biggest electronics firms, is facing its first-ever strike. The global tech giant, which has refused so far to engage in dialogue, citing the union’s lack of majority representation [2024]
    In: Trade unions    
    Topics: Technofeudalism, Worker Rights   
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    Country: KR   
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  • faviconUnited Auto Workers president Shawn Fain spoke before Congress in support of Bernie Sanders’s new 32-hour workweek bill: ‘We find associated deaths of despair, from addiction and suicide, of people who don’t feel a life of endless, hopeless work is a life worth living’ [2024]
    In: Working hours    
    Topics: 4 Day Week, Deaths of Despair   
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    Country: US   
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