The last decade has seen a seismic shift in attitudes towards work and the idea of labour. Whether it is through the rise of the gig economy, the rapid proliferation of the new creator economy, or the pandemic-induced break from traditional office culture: work has seeped into our lives, literally invading our homes. At the same time more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy. It has led to the idea that certain work is not really work, and should be done for the sake of passion rather than pay.

Part of an ongoing collaboration with Dutch platform DeDependance,  we invitedAmerican labour journalist Sarah Jaffe, British labour economist Professor Guy Standing and Dutch sociologist Margreite Van den Berg to discuss how our relationship to work has changed, what went wrong with our perceptions of work and what we can do to fundamentally transform current labour market conditions.