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December Unitarian Blog Carnival: Work
12.19.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on December Unitarian Blog Carnival: WorkThe topic this month for the Unitarian Blog Carnival is work. And apparently we’re all working pretty hard, because we only got two submissions. Not even Kinsi and I, who work together and thought up the topic, got our acts together on this one. Fausto confesses that a new painting in his office of a […]
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woody-guthrie, work
Talking hard work
I was listening to my fellow Okie expat Woody Guthrie on the way home tonight and came across this gem: While we are on the subject of hard work, I just wanted to tell you that I am a man who likes hard work. I was born working and I worked my way up to […]
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efficiency, management, productivity, socialism, subsidiarity, success, work
The work ethic of the lillies of the field
Middle class lockdown prophet Joe Bageant links to a hefty review of The False Gospel of Work by Eugene McCarraher. Among the book’s bold claims: The work ethic’s boss is Mammon. We have a triune birthright: rest, product, and pleasure in work. Talking about consumerism is a way of not talking about capitalism. “Productivity” is […]
