Good point about white settlers not recognizing the labor of the Indigenous peoples as "work." I wonder if there isn't a third factor. Wage labor. You mention stealing the labor of others through slavery, but when exactly did humans engage in the trade and barter of their own labor for wages (currency, cash, moolah, wampum)? What constitutes "work" also varies by gender, perhaps.
I feel like the answer lies somewhere between the communal life of nomadic tribes and the establishment of agriculture as a tradeable commodity.
And yeah...the entire world rests on the unrecognized value of the labor women are expected to do. And that would require a lot of posts to talk about properly.
Good point about white settlers not recognizing the labor of the Indigenous peoples as "work." I wonder if there isn't a third factor. Wage labor. You mention stealing the labor of others through slavery, but when exactly did humans engage in the trade and barter of their own labor for wages (currency, cash, moolah, wampum)? What constitutes "work" also varies by gender, perhaps.
I feel like the answer lies somewhere between the communal life of nomadic tribes and the establishment of agriculture as a tradeable commodity.
And yeah...the entire world rests on the unrecognized value of the labor women are expected to do. And that would require a lot of posts to talk about properly.
Great piece. I especially loved the accumulated clippings!
I could not agree with you more that 'work' is not limited to an industrialized definition.