Tag: Capitalism
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The weekend is 100 years old – but have ‘skiveday Fridays’ and hybrid working ruined it for everyone? | Work-life balance | The Guardian
Before industrialisation, there was little concept of consecutive days of leisure, because animals and crops could not be so long neglected. Work was dictated by the weather and the seasons, the clock mattering less than the sun. Factories, with their whistles and watches, changed the way time worked. A mechanised drumbeat of shifts and paydays…
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian
If Adam Smith was wrong to see capitalism as human nature manifest, then Beckert overcorrects by presenting it as anti-human: a “rogue artificial intelligence”, an invasive species, an alien force, a supernatural hunger. It is insatiable and unkillable. Beckert calls his book an “actor-centred history” about a phenomenon “made by people”, but it is ultimately…