{"id":196,"date":"2015-11-09T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/?p=196"},"modified":"2016-12-22T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:18:20","slug":"whats-happening-to-work-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s happening to work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Work-sign-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Work-sign-2-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"Work, sign 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Work-sign-2-300x123.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Work-sign-2.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>How are the concepts of jobs and work changing or being redefined? What kinds of work does our current economic system support and not support?<\/p>\n<p>Over the decades I\u2019ve often wondered why so much important work isn\u2019t supported, or isn&#8217;t supported well, by the economic and\u00a0political world we live in, like making art or poetry, caring for children and aging adults, protecting the environment, or pulling people together to talk, work, solve problems, or celebrate together. My curiosity probably began when I realized that much of my work seemed to fall outside the mainstream economy. Also I&#8217;ve lived among\u00a0artists and have come\u00a0to believe they&#8217;re among the most resourceful people around\u00a0in the way\u00a0they put their economic lives together. But they&#8217;re certainly not alone. Since last fall, I&#8217;ve\u00a0collaborated\u00a0with Edward Wolcher and Town Hall Seattle on a conversation series about the changing nature of work,\u00a0jumpstarted by ideas from speakers on Town Hall\u2019s stages. The conversations have involved people whose work falls in many worlds.<\/p>\n<p>My own inquiry and curiosity about it continue. There&#8217;s so\u00a0much about work\u00a0to be said, learned, discussed, and debated \u2013\u00a0about how it&#8217;s changing, what its\u00a0future will be, how our assumptions may have to change, and what\u00a0<em>we<\/em>\u00a0can do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/9099-EmailSig-Mascot_B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/9099-EmailSig-Mascot_B.png\" alt=\"9099 EmailSig-Mascot_B\" width=\"31\" height=\"28\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are the concepts of jobs and work changing or being redefined? What kinds of work does our current economic system support and not support? Over the decades I\u2019ve often wondered why so much important work isn\u2019t supported, or isn&#8217;t supported well, by the economic and\u00a0political world we live in, like making art or poetry,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-penny-u","category-whats-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pXN0-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}