Many jobs demand both work and labor, in Hyde’s sense. The labor of teaching, which I love for its transformative power, is accompanied by ordinary paperwork and the work of being an employee, which is more toilsome than the work of teaching. Bureaucracies have a way of making work out of labor and—as I observed on parents’ night, when J’s kindergarten teacher listed the corporations that supplied her with branded coursework—a teacher can be robbed of her labor and left with mostly work.
