Poking in the Shadows: What about ‘Hard Work’?

We have to stop treating blue-collar work as an edge case

Stowe Boyd
Jul 20, 2017 · 3 min read
Carpentry

The great majority of the time, in the discourse about the future of work, we focus almost exclusively on the full-time managerial/professional/creative class, and exclude other groups from consideration, except as numbers in spreadsheets. So, freelance professionals and creatives — a…

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Stowe Boyd

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Founder, Work Futures. Editor, GigaOm. My obsession is the ecology of work, and the anthropology of the future.

Work Futures

Exploring critical themes of the ecology of work, and the anthropology of the future

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