Our Unpaid Extra Shadow Work Summary

In Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work, Craig Lambert shares about how technology has been getting so popular year by year. The author seems to be very straight forward with where he is going. Craig makes outstating points that can give us readers many emotions. For example, he states how there use to be employees who were not cashiers but they roamed the floor, assisting customers. But he makes a smart remark saying “Go into Walmart or target or Staples and find someone to help you locate and choose a product. Good Luck” As you can sense some sarcasm within the sentence, it is not something that isn’t the truth! Many store you go into nowadays you don’t see helpers pointing you into the right direction as to what you came into the store for. Sometimes without the

“a 2007 study pegged its prevalence in the American work force at 38 percent. This should not be surprising. Much of this fatigue may result from the steady, surreptitious accumulation of shadow work in modern life.” Lambert truly does argue that the technology and these machines increased the amount of shadow work we do. However, Craigs use of unsupported ethical appeals that causes his readers to doubt his claim that Groceries (self check out), gas stations, examples with oils changes and squeegeeing our cars and planning our own flight and even our own travel arrangements are truly apart of the extra shadow work. “Doing things for one another is, in fact, an essential characteristic of a human community. Various mundane jobs were once spread around among us, and performing such small services for one another was even an aspect of civility. Those days are over. The robots are in charge now, pushing a thousand routine tasks onto each of our backs,” Lambert finished off his last paragraph with not only a big eye opener, but to really think as to how those days really are over. “ the robots are in charge