Gatorade, pizza, and a piss break: Exploitation at the canoe livery

Reflections from the river on Marx's “Capital."

[Painting by

April Burke

]

Like most of us, I’ve held a lot of different jobs that are more or less physically, emotionally, and intellectually taxing.

I happened to be working a summer job as a “driver” at a canoe livery when I first read Marx’s Capital, Volume One about 10 years ago, a job which made for some interesting reflections on work. From the ground level e…