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SOLVENCY: TRANSITION WILL BE EASED BY COOPERATION FROM MANY

THOSE WHO LOVE THEIR JOBS AND WANT TO WORK WILL MAKE THE TRANSITION TO A WORK FREE WORLD POSSIBLE

Bob Black, 1992; No Future for the workplace, From Friendly Fire, 1992 (Autonomedia, POB 568 Williamsburgh Station, Brooklyn, New York 1211-0568). // acs

You say you love yourjob? Fine. Keep doing it. Your sort will help to tide us over during the transition. We feel sorry for you, but we respect your choice as much as we suspect it's rooted in refusal to admit your present prodigious efforts made life (especially yours) no better, they only made life seem to go by faster. You were coping in your own way: you were trying to get it over with.

WORK CONSULTANTS WILL JOIN AND EMPOWER THE MOVEMENT AWAY FROM WORK

Bob Black, 1992; No Future for the workplace, From Friendly Fire, 1992 (Autonomedia, POB 568 Williamsburgh Station, Brooklyn, New York 1211-0568). // acs

Although the consultants are inept as reformists they might make magnificent revolutionaries. They rethink work, whereas workers want to think about anything but. But they must rethink their own jobs first. For them to transfer their loyalties to the workers might not be too difficult - it's expedient to join the winning side - but they will find it harder to acknowledge that in the end the experts on work are the workers who do it. Especially the workers who refuse to.