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Learning for life
Kerstin Chavent
2024-02-06 3:25 PM
The winners of the digital revolution include hairdressers, plumbers, care and service workers and professions that have something to do with creativity and responsibility (1). It's starting to work in my head. If that is the case, then it is fair to ask whether we still need compulsory education. Why should we all be forced to go to school and learn things that we don't need in our lives? (text/plain)
Memorandum 2022 and Memorandum 2023
Study grup on Alternative Economic Policy
2023-12-28 12:37 AM
The Bremen study group on Alternative Economic Policy has been publishing analyses since 1975. Sustainable infrastructure Investments, de-carbonization, environmental safeguards, work protections and welfare regulations are primary as well as resisting profit maximization and environmental destruction. (text/plain)
The four-day week as a transformation project
Philipp Frey and Stephan Krull
2023-11-20 12:37 PM
The pandemic, environmental disasters and the current wars have ushered in a new era, a kind of "turning point"... As the demand for a reduction in working hours is shared by a broad majority of employees across generations, this offers the opportunity to produce a conflict that has the potential to have an impact and contribute to renewing the trade union movement. (text/plain)
Qualitative Break: Why a Radical Critique of Work is Necessary Today
Norbert Trenkle
2023-10-27 12:23 PM
Capital has increasingly decoupled itself from directly expended labor and accumulation is now taking place predominantly on the level of financial markets... In large parts of the Global South, the majority has long since been declared ‘superfluous.’ (text/plain)
Oregon: the toughest heat protection law in the US
Daniela Gschweng
2022-08-12 9:59 AM
Heat waves are becoming more frequent and longer. Farm workers, people on construction sites, and even firefighters have been largely dependent on the goodwill of their employers during a heat wave. How long Oregon's heat protection law will remain in effect is unknown. (text/plain)
The work critique of millenials and A new universalism of emancipation
Norbert Trenkle
2022-06-23 3:57 PM
The 4-Hour League, an alliance founded in 2016 to campaign for the 4-hour day is concerned with pushing back wage labor to have more time for a good life, for a gender-just redistribution of care activities and putting an end to the over-exploitation of nature. (text/plain)
Reduced Working Hours: The 24-hour Week
Daniel Stern
2022-05-23 11:31 AM
There is currently an international trend toward reducing working hours, which is also being driven by politics: In California, a bill is pending in parliament that would reduce working hours in large companies from 40 to 32 hours. (text/plain)
May Day 2022
Economic Policy Institute
2022-05-01 1:57 PM
“An injury to one is the concern of all.” The events of 1886 – powerful displays of solidarity and mass strikes for an eight-hour work day followed by absolute abuses of state power in executing innocent labor organizers – continue to inspire workers to demand fair, just workplaces & laws. (text/plain)
Labor fetish and anti-semitism
Lothar Galow-Bergemann
2022-04-16 10:13 PM
"Work makes you free" was written above the gate of the Auschwitz death camp. How did the Nazis come up with that? Isn't work something meaningful, something good? What does it have to do with Auschwitz, of all places? Because work and meaningful activity are, two different things. (text/plain)
What 2022 is about: eliminating conservatives with progressive economic policies
Markus Marterbauer
2022-01-23 2:43 PM
A labor shortage that is slowly taking shape and the demand for progressive taxation of high wealth, which is being championed in many countries, will make it possible to change the economy and society in Austria and Europe for the better. They will help us eradicate poverty. (text/plain)
How is Corona changing the world of work?
Dieter Sauer and Richard Detje
2021-12-28 6:02 PM
What was born out of necessity is to become the new standard: The pandemic-related expansion of mobile work is leading to considerations to change the organization of work, to change business areas online. In addition to savings in real estate and travel costs, companies also expect this to increase flexibility. (text/plain)
Keeping Business Alive: The Government Will Pay
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
2021-12-02 2:25 PM
A buyer-of-last-resort program would alleviate the hardship of workers and businesses. It would maintain the cash flow for families and businesses, so that the coronavirus shock has no secondary impacts on demand — Business activity is on hold today, but with an intravenous cash flow, it can be kept alive (text/plain)
Renaissance of the Social Market Economy
Ulrich Thielemann
2021-10-07 2:17 PM
A social market economy is based on two political pillars: (1) taming the market dynamics via regulation and (2) mitigating its consequences in distribution policy. (3) The development and care of an economic culture of moderation and fairness in dealing with one another forms the third, the cultural pillar of taming and civilizing (text/plain)
Beyond market and state
Alex Demirovic
2021-08-29 8:04 PM
The dominant, financial market-oriented factions of capital are using the crisis to further enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else by attempting to appropriate even the wealth of society that is yet to be generated in the medium term by indebting the state. (text/plain)
How is Corona changing the world of work?
D. Sauer, R. Detje & U. Teusch
2021-08-17 1:22 PM
Exceptional situations do not necessarily have to be handled in an authoritarian manner; efficiency does not have to be generated in command structures. Independent action by employees becomes productive in democratic structures - perhaps the Corona crisis has also triggered processes that go in this direction. (text/plain)
Workout. The Crisis of Labor and the Limits of Capitalist Society
Norbert Trenkle
2021-08-16 2:54 PM
The Third Industrial Revolution represents a qualitative break in the history of productivity growth. This is because microelectronics facilitated a radical reorganization in production overall such that labor lost the central importance that it previously had and the application of knowledge became the main force. (text/plain)
Collective working-time reduction is long overdue
Heinz-Josef Bontrup
2021-08-07 6:11 PM
The overall economic fact is further that from 1960 to 2019 the volume of work (despite reunification) increased only from 56.2 to 62.6 billion hours (by 11.4%), while the potential labor force grew from 26.3 to 46.5 million persons, i.e. by 76.8%. (text/plain)
Top Economist: As Pandemic Recedes, a Chance to Rethink Unemployment
Lynn Parramore
2021-06-25 8:54 PM
The Chamber of Commerce, for example, has pushed the U.S. to stop expanded unemployment insurance benefits so that people will be forced to return to low-wage jobs. Some Republican-dominated states have jumped on board with this idea. (text/plain)
Amazon's Meteoric Rise in World Capitalism
Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese
2021-05-27 3:25 PM
Amazon's meteoric rise is, in our view, a key moment in global capitalism. The company's rise to power reflects the increasing influence of neoliberal politics and corporate power in general. It represents a major shift in the global political economy, what we call Amazon capitalism. (text/plain)
Five reasons for an "investing initiative"
George Feigl and Jana Schultheiss
2021-05-18 9:51 PM
Public investments not only bring more employment in the short term, they also increase public wealth and thus enhance the quality of life of the population. Accordingly, they form an important basis for sustainable prosperity and well-being. Investment at the federal level is already on the rise, (text/plain)
Unemployment myth and "Migrantization" of precarity
Claudia Spengler and Johanna Neuhauser
2021-03-20 2:08 PM
Involuntary unemployment is afflicted with many prejudices, which impute a supposed lack of motivation and utility to those affected. Although these prejudices are easy to refute, politicians and representatives of the media cling to the neoliberal notion of individual guilt in unemployment. Unemployment has structural causes. (text/plain)
Why capitalism compels renunciation and we could work less
Lothar Galow-Bergemann and Ernst Lohoff
2021-01-23 1:29 AM
How much human and natural resources are squandered on taxation, trade and advertising, how much on labor administration, justice, police, prisons, armaments, military? How many people work overtime without end, suffer heart attacks and burnout, wear themselves out in the brutal competition? (text/plain)
From senseless working to senseless learning
Erich Ribolits
2020-12-10 3:26 PM
Up to the threshold of modern times, work - as the traditional term for externally determined action(!) - had been perceived from the perspective of the biblically mediated, divine curse. It was regarded as a bitter necessity imposed on people. (text/plain)
Reduced working hours as a socio-economic investment
Michael Schwendinger
2020-12-06 3:32 PM
In this Austrian article, reduced working hours is seen as a socio-economic investment, not as a cost-trap. In a 1909 study by Sidney Chapman, shorter working hours leads to higher productivity and greater output. More time sovereignty and better health of workers would be long-term gains. (text/plain)
The US economy needs Joe Biden
Edmund Phelps
2020-11-18 4:12 PM
The economic and socio-political record of US President Donald Trump is devastating. Wages stagnated even before the Corona crisis. Instead, the national debt increased because he lowered taxes for the rich - without any economic benefit. Joe Biden knows the reasons for the misery and knows what to do.
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Job guarantee for COVID-pandemic victims
Simon Theurl and Dennis Tamesberg
2020-09-11 2:09 PM
A job guarantee for the long-term unemployed is needed. A sufficient number of jobs must be created. This is where politics is needed. The quality and range of public services can be improved. Long-term unemployment is a market failure.People who want to work cannot find a job. (text/plain)
America's Dual Recession
Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca
2020-09-01 10:39 AM
There is every reason to expect that many of the lost jobs – perhaps as many as 40% – will never come back. In the short to medium term, the tragic paradox is that employment opportunities are both too few and pay too little. (text/plain)
Working hours: A four-day week
Heinz Bontrup
2020-08-29 2:43 PM
Reducing working hours is a socio-economic investment that often brings better long-term health and more time sovereignty. A three-day or four-day workweek is the only way to ensure meaningful work to the rising generation. Public employment is necessary to supplement private. (text/plain)
Europe needs an effective guarantee of youth solidarity
Johann Bacher, Dennis Tamesberger &awblog.at
2020-08-13 5:36 PM
The Youth Guarantee could create an entry-level job market in the public or non-profit sector - in other words, jobs that serve the common good. It is the austerity policy in the wake of the financial and economic crisis that has delayed the socio- and ecological transformation. (text/plain)
When Wealth Destroys Wealth: Inverse Capitalism and its Limits
Norbert Trenkle
2020-08-12 10:48 AM
Ever-increasing real estate prices was an illusion. The boom that the US stock markets have experienced in recent years deserves the name fracking boom. Fictitious capital put the US economy back on the growth track. (text/plain)
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