Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Breaking Things at Work by Gavin Mueller

I’m not sure what I was expecting or wanting to get from Breaking Things at Work. The Luddites were right about why you hate your job by Gavin Mueller, but it didn’t really grab me. Maybe it’s more useful for folk who haven’t thought about these sort of matters as much. Hopefully the title draws in more people who are looking for ways out of the sort of jobs I don’t have (thankfully). Anyway, here are my dog-eared sections from reading it. Page 14 Our history is the Luddites’ as well, and their insight—that technology was political, and that it could and, in many cases, should be opposed—has carried down through all manner of militant movements, including those of the present. There is much to learn from this tradition, even among the most technophilic current-day radicals. Page 15 Historian Eric Hobsbawm, in a reevaluation of the Luddites’ motivations for machine breaking, describes them as “collective bargaining by riot.” Page 25 According to Perrot, the weavers’ opposition to…