Brendan’s Reviews > Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone > Status Update

I’m 1.5 chapters in and the writer seriously said that the concept of the family “developed alongside” capitalism and the state, and “developed as a mechanism of controlling and directing labor”.

I’m curious if this person knows much about the anthropological realities of the pre-industrial era, because that’s just laughable. We’ll see if I finish this one…