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The Genius (and Fraud) of Frederick Taylor, Covid Capitalism, and Other Topics: An Interview with Jamie McCallum

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 9

December 21, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

Unproductive Labor · Covid Capitalism and Other Topics: An Interview with Jamie McCallum McCallum is an author, teacher, and activist, focusing on labor and work issues around the world. He is currently associate professor of sociology at Middlebury College. You can find him on twitter @jamiekmccallum

The Genius (and Fraud) of Frederick Taylor, Covid Capitalism, and Other Topics: An Interview with Jamie McCallum

Podcast

The Long Con: Scarcity and the Origins of Virtue

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 8

December 3, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

Unproductive Labor · The Long Con: Scarcity and the Origins of Virtue

Podcast

The Hope of Pleasure in What you Make: A Conversation about Luddism with Gavin Mueller

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 7

November 19, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

Unproductive Labor · The Hope of Pleasure in What You Make: A Conversation with Gavin Mueller Dr. Mueller Mueller is Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He’s also a member of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine. Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are ...

The Hope of Pleasure in What you Make: A Conversation about Luddism with Gavin Mueller

Podcast

The Origins of Wage Labor

Unproductive Labor Podcast, Episode 6

November 5, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

Unproductive Labor · Episode 6: The Origins of Wage Labor What We Talked About John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” James Livingston, No More Work Ann Kussmaul, Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England Joyce Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England Joan Thirsk, Agrarian History of England The Natural John Denver, “Thank God I’m ...

Podcast

Human Evolution Has Left Us Ill-Prepared: A Conversation with Emily Guendelsberger about Work in the 21st Century

Unproductive Labor, Episode Four

July 6, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

In this episode, we have a conversation with Emily Guendelsberger, author of What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane. She worked at Philadelphia City Paper, the Onion’s A.V. Club, Philadelphia Weekly, and the Philadelphia Daily News, and has contributed to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington ...

Podcast

Work Society and Unworked Community

Unproductive Labor, Episode Three

June 15, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

James Chamberlain is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Mississippi State University. His dissertation, Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, was published in 2020. It explores some of the normative and theoretical questions around the topic of work. James has also co-edited a forthcoming volume (with Albena Azmanova) exploring a series of ...

Podcast

For Only $184 million You Can Have a Bespoke Labor Category For Your Business: A Conversation with Alex Press about Gig Work

Unproductive Labor, Episode Two

June 7, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

In this episode, we have a conversation with Alex Press, a staff writer at Jacobin magazine who covers a range of topics around labor in the United States, including the gig economy. We talked about the gig economy, what’s at stake for companies in and workers in categorizing workers as employees, ...

Economy

Executives at Gig Companies Say the Darndest Things

Unproductive Labor, Episode One

May 12, 2021 • by Luke Mergner and Pete Sinnott

This is the first episode of Unproductive Labor, a podcast made with support from Public Seminar. Make sure to not miss any episodes by subscribing on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. The innovations of the gig economy are not just about technology but change our expectations, and the ...