{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Origins of Wage Labor","description":"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\u2019s Georgics. It\u2019s quite a ride. We also talk about farming. Contact US Twitter: @PublicSeminar, @lmergner, @pete_sinnott Email: unproductivelabor@gmail.com Credits Producer: Daniel Ferm\u00edn Music: Composed and performed by Samuel Haines.&amp;nbsp; Artwork: Daniel Ferm\u00edn What We Talked About John Maynard Keynes, \u201cEconomic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren\u201d 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, \u201cThank God I\u2019m a Country Boy\u201d James Suzman,  Work: A Deep History from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots ","author_name":"Unproductive Labor","author_url":"https:\/\/publicseminar.org\/category\/multi-media\/podcast\/unproductive-labor\/","html":"<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>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/114915785"}