Article, Volume #56
Loving Gamification
Eventually, Susy found a job in an industrial warehouse. The company, one of the fastest growing online supermarkets in the country. A company which of course she’d never heard of before.
Publication ‘Whose Europe?’: The ‘New Europe’ and Controversy around the European Idea
— by Kai Vöckler
Who belongs to Europe? And when we say ‘Europe’, what exactly do we mean? Such questions are the subject of controversy all over Europe and beyond. The idea of Europe as a community and the European Union as a supranational and intergovernmental community of states have so far been, and still remain, important frames of reference. […]
Article, Labor Pains, Volume #56
Labor Pains #3: Leisuring Measure
— by George Jepson and Julian Siravo
In parallel to Volume #56 Playbor, we publish a series of texts exploring the different aspects of work conditions. This article focuses on the distribution, the measure and the appreciation of the leisure time, in an age where the line between work and leisure is thinning.
Article
Worker of the worlds, unite! Using incentive design for scaling trust in vertical unions
— by Arthur Röing Baer and Nick Houde
Currently, union membership is declining all across the OECD and in most other regions in the world while anti-union sentiment and legislation have become commonplace giving workers few, if any, means to collectively bargain with increasingly large and diffuse firms. At the same time, zero hour contract models and the platformization of labor have fragmented and deconstructed many of the labor protections that unions have made possible which has, in turn, destabilised the conditions for social solidarity that once made collective bargaining effective.
Article, Volume #56
Everyone an Entrepreneur
— by Giulio Gonella
Can these two notions, precarity and entrepreneurialism, apparently distant, coexist? In his book Entreprecariat, Silvio Lorusso aptly addresses the uncanny coincidence of precarity and entrepreneurialism as “two sides of the same perverse coin”. Such discordance is precisely what qualifies the subject that he calls entreprecarious.
Interview, Volume #56
Play and Reality: the Secret Tapes (Ben Schouten and Gabriele Ferri interviewed by Volume)
— by Archis/Volume
In addition to the interview published in Volume 56, we release some more material from that conversation that we couldn’t include in print. Enjoy!
Editorial, Volume #56
All Work, All Play
— by Arjen Oosterman
For centuries, work was labor and for the larger part of society it was something you did to survive, not because you liked to. With the development of capitalism, the industrial society, and the exponential diversification in work and jobs, this gradually changed.
Publications, Volume #56
OUT NOW Volume #56: Playbor
— by Archis/Volume
There once was a time when work and leisure were separate realms: you worked or you played. These days, playing is work and work demands playing. Who’s fooling who, may we ask?
Labor Pains
Labor Pains #2: Burnout
— by George Jepson
Our next issue #56 Playbor will be released soon. In the meantime, we publish a series of texts exploring the data produced by international surveys on people’s work related feelings. This article focuses on burnout.
Labor Pains
Labor Pains #1: Happiness
— by George Jepson
In the build up to our next issue, #56 Playbor, we’ll publish a series of texts exploring the data produced by international surveys on people’s work related feelings: happiness, boredom, burn-out, and more. This week it’s happiness’s turn.