This semester (Spring 2021) I’m teaching a new class about the history of work. We’re asking: If making, doing, and caring are fundamental human activities that fulfill basic human needs, why are so many jobs miserable? We’ll also be thinking about how thing could be made better. We’re digging into the social technologies that structure most jobs: wage labor, management and bureaucracy, and neoliberal globalization. I’m especially excited about the final project, where students will create something from an imagined future.
Feel free to read along! If you do, let me know!
Learn more at the course website. See more past and future teaching here.
Note on the image: The phrase, “occupy, resist, produce,” is from Brazil’s Movimiento Sin Terra and has been taken up by the Argentinian recovered factory movement This image comes from a photograph of workers at a munitions factory in 1917.
@dave_unger I like those assignments. I wish I had classes like this available to me when I was in school. But I’m heartened to see there *are* classes like this. 🙂
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