To Be Free Full-Time

I have WRITTEN elsewhere of how an accurate examination of people's experiences in the contemporary workforce is, with few exceptions, missing from our cultural productions, our educational curriculums, our news and entertainment media, and advertising. This absence occurs despite how work, for a majority of us, is the central and governing experience of daily life ? determining, for example, our standard of living, how much time and energy we have before and after going to our jobs, the place we live. Our employment has a major influence on who our friends are, and strongly affects our attitudes towards an enormous array of events, social movements, artifacts, environments, etc. And despite the silence in which our society wraps participation in the workforce, our jobs each day reconstruct society. Because of our efforts at work, the members of our community are fed, sheltered, clothed, educated, entertained, and much more. I have written elsewhere, as well, about how the taboo surrounding a true insider's representation of everyday jobs is not a neutral fact, but a source of pain. As I argue in my 1993 collection of essays, A Country Not Considered

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