How to help workers who feel alienated and overwhelmed

Guest column

First it was the “Great Resignation.” Then it was “nobody wants to work anymore.” Now it’s “quiet quitting.”

Yet it seems like no one wants to talk about what I see as the root cause of America’s economic malaise – work under contemporary capitalism is fundamentally flawed.As a political philosopher studying the effects of contemporary capitalism on the future of work, I believe that the inability to dictate and meaningfully control one’s own working life is the problem.Democratizing work is the solution. The problem of work What can be said about the malaise surrounding work under capitalism today?There are […]

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