What will the workplace of tomorrow be like?”
). This will obviously apply to work conducted in the home as well, otherwise the “revolution, intoxicated with the beautiful words, Liberty, Equality, Solidarity, would not be a revolution if it maintained slavery at home. Half [of] humanity subjected to the slavery of the hearth would still have to rebel against the other half.” [Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread, p. 128] In other words, anarchists desire “to combine the best part (in fact, the only good part) of work — the production of use-values — with the best of play . . . its freedom and its fun, its voluntariness and its intrinsic gratification” — the transformation of what economists call production into productive play. [Bob Black, Smokestack Lightning] In addition, a decentralised system will build up a sense of community and trust between individuals and ensure the creation of an ethical economy, one based on interactions between individuals and not commodities caught in the flux of market forces. This ideal of a “
