DECOMMODIFIED LABOR: CONCEPTUALIZING WORK AFTER THE WAGE

Decommodified Labor: Conceptualizing Work After the Wage

A way to think labor after finanancialization, decommodifed labor refers to an emptying out of the same wage relation that nonetheless continues to structure our lives.“Working hard or hardly working” Body Oils needs a new conjunction: in an age of decommodifed labor, one finds oneself working hard and hardly working.I suggest that decommodifie

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Task-dependent inhibition of slow-twitch soleus and excitation of fast-twitch gastrocnemius do not require high movement speed and velocity-dependent sensory feedback

Although individual heads of triceps surae, soleus (SO) and medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscles, are often considered close functional synergists, previous studies have shown distinct activity patterns between them in some motor behaviors.The goal of this study was to test two hypotheses explaining inhibition of slow SO with respect to fast MG: (1) i

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