Work And Injury

Do Today’s Work Today

Matt Webb | Interconnected | 23rd January 2026

What links a 1980s British playground rhyme — "Oompa-Loompa stick it up your jumper" — and the Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei"? A 1935 comic song about defying authority, which began "Twas Christmas Day at the workhouse and you know how kind they are..." and the headline of this piece, which is emblazoned on a surviving London workhouse, where "city paupers were farmed" as poverty relief (900 words)

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Injury To Buildings And Vegetables

Alyssa Battistoni | n+1 | 4th September 2025

On climate change as a class problem, building on the work of Marx, Engels and left-wing ecologist Barry Commoner. "Like the free lunch, the free gift of nature is an illusion. Its costs always appear elsewhere in the system. The question is not whether they are paid, but what form they take and who — or what — pays them." Pollution should be considered and priced as a product of capitalism (4,000 words)