
How Capitalism Deforms the Logic of Work – and How to Reclaim It
Lisa Herzog
Work can be a source of identity and meaning, empowering people to be self-confident citizens, willing to stand up for themselves and others – but only if it is not subjected to the logic of capitalism, but to that of democracy. To counter the pressures of competitiveness and profitability that harm our relation to work, infusing it with precarity and inequality, we need solid social protections, a job guarantee, and workplace democracy.