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4 - Radical Discontent and the Future of Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2021

Raymond Geuss
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University of Cambridge
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Dissatisfaction with work is as old as work itself, and dissatisfaction with our regime of work is as old as industrialism itself. Sometimes complaints about work are very well focused, such as the complaints made by health-workers in the British National Health Service (NHS) during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 that they were not provided with appropriate protective equipment despite the fact that one of the government’s own exercises had highlighted this as an area of potential concern during a pandemic. Sometimes, however, the discontent is of a kind that cannot be addressed by a mere tweaking of current arrangements, and it expresses itself in more radical demands. In what follows I shall discuss some frequently made suggestions for making radical changes to our world of work.

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Print publication year: 2021

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