As I write this, Britain’s ‘summer of discontent’ is being followed by an equally disaffected winter, with a walkout from 50,000 rail workers still not showing signs of slowing down and instead increasingly of being accompanied by further industrial action in other sectors. A combination of rampant inflation and falling real wages has led to the worst cost of living crisis for decades, and narratives of ‘quiet quitting’ and generational burnout are seemingly increasingly resonant.
Against this backdrop, it might seem like an odd time to write an article examining the merits of work. Yet, perhaps somewhat optimistically, the current […]
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