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With the exception of rest, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than some other activity. It really is central to our economy, our world, and the family. It underpins our money and our sense of so this means in life. Given the overriding need for work, we have to recognize a serious transformation in the type of work that is significantly altering lives: the inbound tidal wave of shadow work. Shadow work includes all the unpaid duties we do with respect to businesses and organizations. It offers slipped into our exercises stealthily; most of us do not realize how much of it we already are doing, once we pump our own gas, scan and bag our own groceries, execute our own stock deals, and build our own unassembled furniture. But its occurrence is unmistakable and its effects far-reaching. Fueled by the twin makes of technology and skyrocketing personnel costs, shadow work has considered a foothold in our society. Lambert terms its prevalence as "middle-class serfdom" and examines its resources in the invasion of robotics, the democratization of skills, and new requirements on individuals by any means levels of world. The end result? A more individualized form of consumption, a great cultural leveling (pedigrees don't help with shadow work!), and the weakening of areas as robotics reduce daily individual relationship. Shadow Work offers a field guide to the new happening. It shines a light on these developments now so prevalent in our daily lives and, moreover, offers valuable insight into how to counter their effects. It will be essential reading to anyone seeking to understand how their days got so full - and how to deal with the ubiquitous shadow work that surrounds them.
