Did the rise of the managerial class increase productivity in the workplace? From bored employees that hate their jobs, to work induced involuntary choreas, to compulsory jolly service workers, to tech work cults and spiritual marketing consultants, the chapter explores the values and principles we associate with work as well as the theological standings behind the relationship of salvation and industriousness.
References:
00’18” Strange U “Part Machine”
01’57” Excerpt from Adam Curtis, “The Engineer’s Plot”, Pandora’s Box
02’37” Daft Punk “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger”
02’55” Karl Marx, Capital vol.1 , 1991, p. 512 read by Flora Wolpert Checknoff
04’27” Camillo Berneri, “The problem of work”, Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society, 2019 p.38 ready by Laurence Henriquez, Kari Robertson, Flora Wolpert Checknoff, Jo Willoughby and Bobby Sayers
05’08” Camron “I Hate My Job”
05’45” Excerpt from Harun Farocki, La Sortie d’usine, 1995
07’31” Quoted from Frederick Engels, Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State, 1884
08’18” Missy Elliott “Work it”
09’30” Fifth Harmony ft. Kid Ink “Worth It”
11’00” Aditya Bahl, “Episode One: All The Factory’s A Stage” ready by Santiago Pinyol
14’27” Kelly Rowland “Work”
16’03” Excerpt from Mike Judge, Office Space, 1999
17’48” Quoted from Preoccupying: Mark Fisher
18’10” Quoted from David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, 2018 p.30
18’40” David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, 2018 p.30 read by Jo Willoughby
20’26” Fountains of Wayne, “Bright Future In Sales”
21’28” Quoted from Camillo Berneri, “The problem of work”, Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society, 2019 p.37
21’43” Camillo Berneri, “The problem of work”, Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society, 2019 p.37 read by Kari Robertson
22’44” Ciara ft. Missy Elliott “Work”
23’50” Excerpt from Abraham Maslow and Self Actualization, 1968
25’33” Excerpt from Slavoj Zizek, on freedom
26’37” Quoted from “The great London dock strike”, 1889
27’03” Queen “I Want to Break Free”
28’13” Quoted from Kate Soper, Post-Growth Living For an Alternative Hedonism, 2020, p.91
28’22” Excerpt from WeWork, “Life at WeWork”
29’22” Future ft. Drake “Life is Good”
30’46” Excerpt from BBC News, CEO Secrets: Pret A Manger boss Clive Schlee
31’00” Paul Myerscough, The Pret Buzz, 2013 read by Kari Robertson
32’00” Ariana Grande “Fake Smile”
33’27” Sublime “I love my dog”
34’40” Excerpt from The Holy Bible, Colossians Chapter 3
35’10” Gretchen Purser and Brian Hennigan, Cleaning Toilets for Jesus
35’50” Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 1930, p. 121-122 read by Laurence Henriquez
38’05” Excerpt from Elon Musk, Work Every Walking Hour
38’50” Kevin Gates ft. August Alsina “I Don’t Get Tired”
39’45” Quoted from Gretchen Purser and Brian Hennigan, Cleaning Toilets for Jesus
40’08” Meja “All ‘Bout The Money”
40’59” Quoted from Nellie Bowles, “God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both”
41’42” Paul Lafargue, The religion of Capital, 1887, p.25-26
43’41” Quoted from Chris Maisano, “Working for the Weekend”
44’19” Tierra Whack “Unemployed”
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Lila Athanasiadou
Lila is awriter, programmer and researcher with a background in architecture.
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1. Introduction
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