5LL #137 - Social Reproduction, McDonald's, Love, Solidarity, Techno-Utopians

The Lockdown Showed How the Economy Exploits Women. She Already Knew.
Jordan Kisner, The New York Times

Silvia Federici has been warning for decades of what happens when we undervalue domestic labor.

The Fight for Fifteen at an Orlando McDonald's
Eleni Schirmer, The New Yorker

For Cristian Cardona and his co-workers, the pandemic brought new meaning to a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage.

Against Loving Your Job
Sarah Jaffe, In These Times

“We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will.”

Backlash Forever
Gabriel Winant, Dissent

It’s time to abandon the assumption that workers have a “natural” home on the center-left. But we should also reject the idea that social conservatism always lies latent within working-class culture, ready for right-wing politicians to activate.

Specter in the Machine
Evan Malmgren, Logic

In the 1990s, as the internet was being turned into a shopping mall, a group of radicals built a digital commune.

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