Unproductive Labor

The Long Con: Scarcity and the Origins of Virtue


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The threat of scarcity, the promise of wealth, the problematic rhetoric of wage labor as a form of slavery, and the not so straight line between seventeenth century attacks on the commons and neoliberal welfare reform.

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Producer: Daniel Fermín

Music: Composed and performed by Samuel Haines.

Artwork: Daniel Fermín

What We Talked About

Welfare Reform

James Suzman

A Field in England

Elizabeth Anderson

Bernard Mandeville

David Hume

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Unproductive LaborBy Pete Sinnott