1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Wage labor is one of the core principles for organizing our lives in western societies. How did that happen? We attempt to answer that question in 20 minutes, moving backward from Keynes to seventeenth century England to Virgil’s Georgics. It’s quite a ride. We also talk about farming. Contact US Twitter: @PublicSeminar, @lmergner, @pete_sinnott Email: unproductivelabor@gmail.com Credits Producer: Daniel Fermín Music: Composed and performed by Samuel Haines.&amp;nbsp; Artwork: Daniel Fermín What We Talked About John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” James Livingston, No More Work&amp;nbsp; Ann Kussmaul, Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England Joyce Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England Joan Thirsk, Agrarian History of England The Natural John Denver, “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” James Suzman, Work: A Deep History from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots Unproductive Labor https://publicseminar.org/category/multi-media/podcast/unproductive-labor/ <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/21056615/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/114915785