{"id":103,"date":"2012-05-02T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/2012\/05\/02\/workers-of-the-world-stop-working\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T23:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T03:12:55","slug":"workers-of-the-world-stop-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivanhimanen.com\/crisesofdocumentation\/workers-of-the-world-stop-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers of the world— stop working"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A brief (but good) review of Kathi Weeks’ “The Problem With Work.” Channeling Paul Lafargue.<\/a><\/div>\n
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I am incrementally beginning to appreciate society’s need for reviews– it is in fact a very real need, and just one example of how we, the social and societal species, rely on language and conveyance for understanding. In fact, I remember how Andres Duany let on about how we don’t have time for the thousand-page novels, and the 3-hour movies (although some of those are well worth it– more on that later) and that apples-to-apples, a single Corinthian column expressing civic function takes a decisive victory over an entire Morphosis facade system (“neurotic” architecture, he calls it).<\/div>\n
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Photo credit Zachary Esni on flickr<\/a>. Used under Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic<\/a>. No changes made.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Federal Building, San Francisco, California. Designed by Morphosis Architects. Photo credit John King \/ The Chronicle. Image via SFChronicle<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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But all neuroses aside, Kathi Weeks presents a hypothesis worth entertaining. Particularly on Mayday.<\/div>\n
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Indeed, the history of the 40-hour workweek started with organization of labor in the industrial revolution. But there’s a big difference between the workers of then and the workers of now: collar color<\/b>. 8 hours per day was the practical limit of physical exertion for blue-collar workers at the mills and factories a century and a half ago. They figured, when the majority of workers (at least in this country) swayed over to the white-collar service industry, that sitting in front of a screen and filling out papers and talking on the phone are not nearly as taxing and that maintaining a 40-hour week is beyond feasible. But as anyone who nods when seeing those 5-Hour Energy commercials knows, it isn’t. The workweek needs to thus be adjusted to meet the unique physiognomical demands of desk work.* Maybe not as extreme as Kathi Weeks’, but clearly changes need to be enacted.<\/div>\n
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And in the spirit of laziness, this post is one day tardy. Lazies of the world unite!<\/div>\n
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*Note: Time of writing: 3PM.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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