The vision of a “post-work” society––one in which the fruits of technological progress take the form of reduced work-time rather than more consumer goods and services––has recently enjoyed a measure of renewed interest and support in parts of the left. There’s the essay by John Quiggin, a social-democratic Keynesian economist and author of Zombie Economics; articlesby Peter Frase and Chris Maisano in Jacobin magazine; and, from a somewhat different perspective, David Graeber's recent thoughts on "bullshit jobs".
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“The original source is probably the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which is one of the sources of ‘Productivity/income’ info listed at the bottom of the story,” he wrote to me in an email. “They do a lot of publicizing of the supposed growing gap between productivity growth and wage/compensation growth. I find their stuff on this very misleading.” He went on to say he had crunched the EPI’s numbers and discovered that the pay Mother Jones claimed was being kept from workers couldn’t possibly be given to them. If it was tried, he said, there would be nothing left for the corporations—that is, the shareholders, owners and others who receive income but play no role in production. 
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The Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory I: Brendan Cooney, kapitalism101.wordpress.com, Andrew Kliman, Economics Dept., Pace University, Thom Workman, Dept., of Political Science, Univ., of New Brunswick
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