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Go to Shopify. Go to Shopify. dot co. dot UK slash revenue or lower case. Go to Shopify.co. UK slash revenue to take your business to the next level today. Shopify.co. UK slash revenue. and welcome to the Bunker Daily. I'm your host Alex Andro. Human beings are social

creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company and

not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others, we are social in a more elemental way.

Simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.

Those are the words of surgeon and public health advocates at all go one day.

Yet with everything from drone couriers to self-checkouts, internet banking and care Robots, the interaction is being reduced.

An issue which concerns my guest today, a professor of sociology at the University of

Virginia, and is the subject of her new book, The Last Human Job.

Welcome to the bunker, Professor Allison Pugh.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Allison, can we start with a few basic concepts?

How do you define the concept of connective labor?

So connective labor is my term

for the work that underlies so much of the work that people do, the teaching,

the healing, the counseling, giving advice,

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