@amy I.think people should have a right to work remotely in every case where it's feasible.

Also people should have a right to get #FTTB & #FTTH installed at non-discrimimatory rates like with landline telephony and electricity.

Also #Commuting is #UnpaidLabour!

@breadandcircuses Actually, it's the culture of #Suburbanism, #Capitalism,
#HyperIndividualism and the fact that people even tolerate the existance of #UnpaidLabour in the form of #Commute.

The way that #Twitter, #Reddit, #Facebook and every other social site profit from the unpaid labour of workers... hold on....

this seems familiar to me...

I seem to remember some crazy German dude going on about this? What was his name? AH YES...

https://www.marxist.com/marx-capital-guide/3-chapters-4-8-surplus-value.htm

#SurplusValueOfLabour #Marxism #Capitalism #UnpaidLabour #UnpaidCosts

@mimsical #Commute is just #UnpaidLabour - period!

@scarlet PRECISELY THAT!

It's #cruelty under the veil of #LateStageCapitalism.

Same with #UnpaidLabour aka. #Commute:
Most jobs that are "#WhiteCollar" can be done 100% remote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXd7Y3HvUj4

@Radical_EgoCom #Commute is #UnpaidLabour!

@thatguyoverthere @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs So unless one is an accelerationist and thinks that stuff will become better if one refuses to implement or participate in change, it's the kind of "well-meant but counterproductive" shit like @AufstandLastGen sticking themselbes on the road surface, only angering #WageWorkers doing #UnpaidLabour aka. #commuting and not forcing the decisionmakers to change...

@kaia I find their actions to be wasted resources and counterproductive.

As in "Pissing off #WageWorkers on #UnpaidLabour aka. #commute certainly will convince them of something..." - stupidity.

Their actions will only be used to #criminalize any other #protesting and won't even affect the #Decisionmakers in politricks and economy to even fake to give a f**k...

And that IS the problem...

@molly0xfff @electropict @JorgeStolfi …#chatsplaining - I like. In a followup - when a human explains to the AI what do we call that #chattraining #unpaidlabour

A Sydney Covid-19 lockdown research rabbithole from 2021 finally resulted in a publication:

My article - "Co-option or Recognition? Second-wave Feminist Politics and the Frigidaire Australia Women’s Design Conference, 1980" has been accepted by the Journal of Design History and will be available in a little while (happy to share).

It's an odd one for me... not usually a research direction I take but lockdown did strange things to everyone. For me - I got stuck into the archives of the Australian Women's Weekly from the 1980s. In 1980 Frigidaire sought the views of supposedly "ordinary Australian women" to design their new range of refrigerators...

#designhistory #feministhistory #refrigeratordesign #industrialdesign #advertising #australianfeminism #lockdown #unpaidlabour #housework #domesticlabour

Ode to brave unpaid workers,
Who toiled for a better future,
Eagerly helping others
Yet still left to suffer.

Applaud for their resilience
In the face of woes and strife,
Their courage and diligence,
Should we reward their life?

HAS

#china #covid #workforce #unpaidlabour #ode #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/world/asia/china-covid-protests.html

"The shock news is certain to make tables at Noma even more sought after but it has also drawn attention to the seedy underbelly of fine dining, which is often built on unpaid or cheap labour.

Trainee chefs used to work for no wages during three-month stints at Noma, just for the experience of working in celebrated kitchens with famous chefs. The practice is widespread in elite kitchens where the stagiaires spend long hours toiling to realise the vision of their often mercurial masters." #Noma #food #restaurants #labour #unpaidlabour #exploitation #finedining

'World's best restaurant' Noma is closing for financial reasons https://www.goodfood.com.au/eat-out/news/worlds-best-restaurant-noma-is-closing-for-financial-reasons-20230109-h292im

Over 20 years ago I worked as a postman. Lately my daughter has been insisting I play "posti-man" which involves me pushing her tiny scooter around the flat delivering empty toilet roll tubes, old magazines and random toys to my wife while she's on the toilet. I'm not even being paid.

#daddyduties #unpaidlabour

@pavlosvas1

This bit feels even more relevant for today’s #UCU #strike #ucuRISING

For many years, academics accepted relatively low pay (relative to their skill level) and long hours in exchange for relative #autonomy at work and a dignified retirement. That #socialContract has been torn up under a decade of #marketisation. The supply of “good will” (i.e. #underpaid and #unpaidLabour) that has kept #universities running for a long time is now close to zero. Even if the employers win in this dispute, it will be a #Phyrric victory, or a Carthaginian one — creating a desert and calling it peace. Unless vice-chancellors change course, #workplace relations will be poisoned for a generation and universities will become increasingly #dysfunctional.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Marketisation in British Higher Education by Lee Jones

I was at an online antenatal class today with my partner. The women were told that as they get more uncomfortable later in pregnancy, they may want to “delegate some of the housework” 🙄

In case anybody needs to hear it, housework is not women’s job! Men, take some goddamn responsibility!

#EverydaySexism #UnpaidLabour #Feminism #GenderEquity

Working People on Unpaid Labour

Working People has some great episodes, but I think highlighting the contributions and struggles of people who aren't compensated for the work they contribute to our lives is immeasurably important and the most compelling thing they have brought forward.

https://apollolemmon.com/2019/12/30/working-people-on-unpaid-labour/

#politics #unpaidlabour