Unemployed men seek casual jobs from passers-by on a road in Cape Town, South Africa. EFE-EPA/Nic Bothma When people hear of ‘work’, it is usually waged or salaried employment. Governments and commentators rarely speak of the work of hustling , child-rearing or subsistence farming. Instead, work is generally referred to in the narrowly economic and legal sense as non-domestic, legally codified, paid employment.
Yet this model of work is the global exception . Wage employment was invented by European states in the 18th and 19th centuries to generate an industrial workforce. It later provided social protections such as sick pay, […]
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