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• 1/15/2023
  

  Revisiting Kropotkin 180 Years After His Birth

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  The rise of automation and the concurrent squeeze of workers in the name of profit offer an opportunity to revisit the ideas of Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin as a forward-looking critique of power. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  11/10/2022
  

  Lunchtime in Italy: Work, Time and Civil Society

  by Jonathan Levy

  The Italian lunchtime insists that time be organized around communal rituals and sustenance, not work. Does the utter foreignness of this attitude in America help explain the current national derangement? 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/4/2022
  

  Hobbies are How Work Infiltrates Leisure

  "The anxieties of capitalism are not confined to the workplace. They have a long history of leaking into our free time," explains leisure historian Steven M. Gelber.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/11/2021
  

  This Black Family Ran a Thriving Beach Resort 100 Years Ago. They Want Their Land Back.

  The descendants of the Bruce family seek restitution for the taking of their family's beachfront land, which had been Southern California's first beach resort serving African Americans. Historian Alison Rose Jefferson says recreational access was an underappreciated facet of the struggle for justice. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/14/2020
  

  How Civilization Broke Our Brains

  The anthropologist James Suzman's book evaluates the ravages of modern capitalist civilization – in particular, the institution of work –  on individual and collective psychology. 

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• SOURCE: The Progressive
  10/5/2020
  

  The Nobility of Mobility: A Road Trip Through Racism

  Historian Chris West notes that “driving in a racist society” persists as a “gut-wrenching horror" in a new PBS documentary "Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America."