Postcapitalism

A Guide to Our Future

Paul Mason

Having read it

★★★★★

A really rather decent read. Paul Mason knows his stuff and knows how to put forward an argument about the economy and its many foibles.

A good passage

So our work is precious. If you ever doubt this, study what happens in the fulfilment centre of an e-commerce retailer, or a call centre, or in the work schedule of a home-care worker. You will see work timed and targeted as if the minutes were gold dust. Which, to the employer, they are. Of course at the high-skill, high-wage end of the labour market it is not time or discipline, but targets and quality control that are the instruments of coercion.