The Age of the Crisis of Work
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/05/the-age-of-the-crisis-of-work-quiet-quitting-great-resignation/
While the right-wing chestnut that “no one wants to work anymore” is an exaggeration, so too is the progressive retort that “workers are finally standing up for themselves.” Something slipperier is at hand: an inchoate sense of disillusionment. Tendrils of dissatisfaction are solidifying. Talk of a crisis of work suggests that many people today understand work itself, I think accurately, as a governing institution in its own right, analogous in some ways to the state.
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/05/the-age-of-the-crisis-of-work-quiet-quitting-great-resignation/
While the right-wing chestnut that “no one wants to work anymore” is an exaggeration, so too is the progressive retort that “workers are finally standing up for themselves.” Something slipperier is at hand: an inchoate sense of disillusionment. Tendrils of dissatisfaction are solidifying. Talk of a crisis of work suggests that many people today understand work itself, I think accurately, as a governing institution in its own right, analogous in some ways to the state.