i have never heard this distinction before. It strikes me as a novel re-definition of the word "work" to mean a specific kind of labor. I previously understood work to be a synonym of "labor". I'm willing to adjust to this new understanding, but I'm not so sure society is going to catch up with you on that lol. Either colloquially or legally.
Well, regardless of what words are used, we have to seperate the act of people doing socially necessary things to keep food on everyone's table and all the lights on, and the model of wage labor which makes people do things, some of which is socially necessary, in order to not end up homeless and starving. Based on my own readings, people have delineated it as a labor/work distinction, but what is necessary is to communicate the difference not the specific language
Hell I'd argue that 'work' has a much broader and less defined definition than 'Labor'. Labor is specific to humans (and other animals if you wanna get all animal liberation with your theoretical terminology I guess), whereas pretty much everything in our universe undergoing energy exchange is "working" in one fashion or another.
Plants making energy from sunlight is work, but its not labor. Eating food is your body working but its not labor. etc.
i have never heard this distinction before. It strikes me as a novel re-definition of the word "work" to mean a specific kind of labor. I previously understood work to be a synonym of "labor". I'm willing to adjust to this new understanding, but I'm not so sure society is going to catch up with you on that lol. Either colloquially or legally.
"wage labor abolition" doesn't really roll off the tongue to be fair
employment abolition. job abolition. a "job" is something you get paid for. not all work is a job. square meet rectangle.
Well, regardless of what words are used, we have to seperate the act of people doing socially necessary things to keep food on everyone's table and all the lights on, and the model of wage labor which makes people do things, some of which is socially necessary, in order to not end up homeless and starving. Based on my own readings, people have delineated it as a labor/work distinction, but what is necessary is to communicate the difference not the specific language
yeah i definitely agree with that. work done for a wage under threat of homelessness is inherently coercive.
Hell I'd argue that 'work' has a much broader and less defined definition than 'Labor'. Labor is specific to humans (and other animals if you wanna get all animal liberation with your theoretical terminology I guess), whereas pretty much everything in our universe undergoing energy exchange is "working" in one fashion or another.
Plants making energy from sunlight is work, but its not labor. Eating food is your body working but its not labor. etc.