Work Is Undervalued in Society’s Obsession with ‘Stuff'

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/03-2


The reality for most people at work is a fundamental lack of respect. (Image: Charles Weiss for the Toronto Star)

Why is there so much attention paid to people as consumers, but so little to people as workers?


s it because the mere mention of our rights as workers suggests uncomfortable truths that threaten the very ideological foundations of the current economic system?

As we look back on Labor Day, these are important questions to ponder.

The vast majority of us are wageworkers. Wages are our primary source of income. Or we collect a pension because we and/or our spouse were once workers. Or we are dependants of workers.