Labour in Perturbation

Why this lens matters

Labour reveals who keeps the world running, including invisible, emotional, coerced, skilled and maintenance work.

Follow-ups

1. Is this labour visible, hidden, honoured or shameful?
2. What skills or training are required?
3. Who is excluded from or forced into this work?
4. How is failure repaired or punished?
5. What happens when workers stop?

Perspective shift

How would the person doing the least visible work describe this civilization?

Perturbation

Push this further: What changes when this labour becomes impossible, automated or refused? How does the civilization adapt without simply becoming our world?

Example

Use this while working on the a disturbance, crisis or change: choose one concrete detail and ask how labour changes what it means.