TIME
The Politics of Time: Retrieving our lives
(an excerpt from the section TIME from Jobs, Jive, and Joy: An Argument for the Utopian Spirit.)
The protagonist of Fernando Trías de Bes’ The Time Seller decides one day to quit his bullshit job.
Jobs, Jive, and Joy
The Hawthorne Club (part two)
This concluding section on The (Hawthorne) Club is long. My argument for the significance of leisure-time at the Hawthorne Works as opposed to work-time has, I believe, wide implications. I first contest the assumptions about home faber, or homo laborans, as popularly understood, here.
The Hawthorne Club – Part One
Western Electric’s sponsored leisure activities for the workforce
After writing the text below (the excerpt from the Section called The Club) I came across a Hawthorne Club brochure (n.d. but certainly post-WWII) which described the organization of the Club and its many leisure-time activities.
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A section from Jobs, Jive, and Joy: An argument for the Utopian Spirit
Witnessing a murmuration can be startling and pleasurable. Starlings, an otherwise unremarkable little bird, when amassed in the hundreds, create a fantastic airborne display of agility and coordination that seems to defy the limits of natural phenomenon.
INTRODUCTION
My parents were children of Polish immigrants. They came of age in Chicago in the early 1920s and got married in the mid-30s. So by the time they got married they had both been working for close to 20 years. My father had numerous jobs from chauffeur and car mechanic (in the 20s an indispensable skill) to carpenter and picked up numerous other skills along the way.
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Jobs, Jive, and Joy: An argument for the Utopian Spirit.
Climate catastrophe and civilization collapse (CC2) is not the future. It is our reality today. We are at the beginning of a calamity that will only get worse, if we are to believe the scientists who have been warning us of this disaster for many decades.