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Of work

Missing wages, grueling shifts, and bottles of urine: Hayley Peterson on the disturbing accounts of Amazon delivery drivers may reveal the true human cost of “free” shipping. Silicon Valley and the quest for a utopian workplace: How Google, Tesla, and other tech giants could fix the broken relationship between employers and their employees. Bureaucracy as violence: Jonathan Weinberg reviews The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber. “No downside”: New Zealand firm adopts four-day week after successful trial. Let’s bring back the Sabbath as a radical act against “total work”. Why we need “blue laws”, the religious tradition that sanctifies life outside of work. The case against work: John Danaher argues that work is a bad thing.