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Labour
An annotated collection of 2 books & essays on labour, spanning 1884 to 2018. Featuring works by William Morris, David Graeber — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Useful Work versus Useless Toil
William Morris, 1884 · Socialist League (lecture, published as pamphlet)
Morris's 1884 lecture (later published as a pamphlet) draws a hard distinction between useful work — work that produces something of value to the worker, the community, and humanity — and useless toil, which simply waste…
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber, 2018 · Simon & Schuster
Graeber's thesis: a growing proportion of jobs in advanced economies are perceived as meaningless by the people who hold them, and this is not a bug in capitalism but a structural feature — the system produces unnecessar…