Back by popular demand, the study circle will begin meeting next Wednesday evening, January 12, 2005 at LUGZ Coffee Lounge, 2525 Main St.
Please arrive 10 - 15 minutes before 8:00 p.m. so we can start discussion at 8:00.
I'm going to try something a bit different this term, which is to have a schedule, topics and recommending readings. For those who've been checking the WLIT blog from time to time, you'll notice that I already started posting the readings on the blog beginning in December. I will continue to post this material (beginning with the Reality Check newsletter latter today) so that discussion of the readings can begin at any time before the meetings and they can continue on afterwards.
January 12: Reality Check: ten years after the Donner commission on working time and the distribution of work
Readings;"We're working harder than ever," Arthur Donner, Toronto Star, Dec. 16, and the November newsletter "Reality Check" with short features on "Troubling Trends Overwork, Underwork, Insecure Work," "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Counting Them Wrong and Right," "Cut overwork to create jobs,"
"Canada’s blueprint for more jobs & more leisure," "Counting the costs of overwork," and "Whatever happened to ‘the leisure society’?"
January 19: The crisis of work/ working less so that all can work. Introduction to Gorz
Reading: Section 1 (1.1-1.6) of Gorz's "Critique of Economic Reason: Summary for Trade Unionists and Other Left Activists"
January 26: What's the difference between work and not-work? Introduction to Virno
Reading: "Ten theses on the multitude and post-Fordism": part 1 (1-6) Paolo Virno
February 2: To be decided at the January 26 circle. Should we continue on with Gorz? with Virno? with both? or what else?
Posted by sandwichman at January 6, 2005 11:20 PM