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Lauren Wetmore (Google Docs) <comments-noreply@docs.google.com> To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

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Joshua Schwebel, “Employee first-person voice project description,” Google doc shared with the author.

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:59 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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@privatejosh@gmail.com Just a note that we will have to keep on eye on how to cite this quotation in relation to your edits of that document. We can chat offline and later. I just want to flag it up here.

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Who’s the Boss?

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• 11:50 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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This is such a deeply good title. I almost squealed when I first read it!
Through these layers of technological mediation and physical distance, the Employee appears fundamentally alone at work. Crucially, the Employee is also structurally alone within the workplace.

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• 11:51 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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I appreciate that you are linking the physical, digital and structural so neatly together here.
in terms of

Lauren Wetmore

• 11:55 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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Could this change to "in the scope of" or something similar, to more specifically indicate that what is no accident is that Josh is highlighting this fact?
While this employment structure makes a sort of sense here (to the extent that any existing structure of employment makes sense to anyone but employers, who design jobs to allow them the greatest possible profit, the most stolen labor)—an artwork within and as a workplace, with muddled channels of reporting, accountability, and compensation—the frequent misuse of independent contracting to enable employers to shirk their responsibilities to their workers has to shape our understanding of the project’s examination of work.

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• 12:09 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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As a single sentence, this is dense and I am not following it with ease. Would it be possible to articulate these points together but with a reading-rest point or two?
independent contractor designation

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Thank you for taking up and so precisely articulating this point!
.; The independent contractor designation

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• 12:17 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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I've added this as a suggestion for breaking up a sentence that would benefit from a break, but I realise that it now means the "independent contractor" is being repeated too much. Is there another strategy for creating a pause in this sentence that doesn't result in this repetition?

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Clynton Lowry, “The Ecstasy and Exploitation of Art Handling,” interview by Kressent Pottinger, New Labor Forum, September 2017, https://newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2017/09/29/the-ecstasy-and-exploitation-of-art-handling/.

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:19 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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Chef's kiss to this citation structure! Thank you for taking such care with these.
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Lauren Wetmore

• 12:20 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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I believe there is a missing word here.

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reporting processes, and —- that evoke an employee handbook

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• 10:57 AM, Oct 18 (CEST)
unclear

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whose precisely?

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I think this is referencing Valcourt Synnott but it might be a more general "her".

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Uber, Lyft, and Doordash spent $200 million in California last year on a restrictive ballot measure, known as Proposition 22

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:26 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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As an anecdote, my partner was voting in California when this was on the ballot and we felt that the wording for this proposition was extremely misleading, so as to coerce voters into voting for it even if they didn't support it.
What can we, as art workers, do about it?

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:30 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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Yes! This needed a fine point put upon it - that the work implicates other cultural workers.
cum

Lauren Wetmore

• 12:34 PM, Oct 18 (CEST)

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I am uncertain about style in this case. Why is it italicised here and not in paragraph 3?
Schwebel, “Employee first-person voice project description.”

Lauren Wetmore

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Same note to Josh about keeping an eye on how to cite this
Schwebel, “Employee first-person voice project description.”

Lauren Wetmore

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Same note as above

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the logic

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Would it be helpful to qualify the "mistaken logic" here?
Who are our fellow workers?

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I think that this phrase could be lost as the point has been articulated.
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could we say "cultural workers" or similar to avoid the repetition of "artists" in this sentence.
If that’s who holds the power to either ease or escalate our exploitation then—in the absence of a boss—that’s one place to march.

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Way to stick this landing!!!

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