{"id":329985,"date":"2021-09-29T08:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T08:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=215233"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T08:57:11","slug":"what-is-to-be-done-about-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/29\/what-is-to-be-done-about-work\/","title":{"rendered":"What is To Be Done About Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020-21, Covid-19 threw millions of people out of work, dispatched the more privileged among us to white collar \u201chome offices,\u201d and made life on the job a lot more dangerous and difficult for those suddenly deemed \u201cessential\u201d as health care workers, retail clerks, or meat packers. The resulting disruption of existing workplace arrangements\u2014from commuting patterns to face-to-face meetings and on-site supervision\u2014has been the subject of endless newspaper commentary and social media discussion, as pandemic conditions persist or abate. Thanks to the Delta variant, we\u2019re now prisoners of a wide-ranging debate about workplace mandates related to Covid-19 testing, mask-wearing, or, better yet, vaccination. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/29\/what-is-to-be-done-about-work\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/29\/what-is-to-be-done-about-work\/\">What is To Be Done About Work?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/29\/what-is-to-be-done-about-work\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020-21, Covid-19 threw millions of people out of work, dispatched the more privileged among us to white collar \u201chome offices,\u201d and made life on the job a lot more dangerous and difficult for those suddenly deemed \u201cessential\u201d as health care workers,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330077,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329985\/revisions\/330077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}