"...it is clear that through the command that the unemployed participate in all manner of activities - including mandatory unpaid work - regimes of activation are reworking the relationship between unemployment and employment in such a way that, rather than being opposing states, they exist along the same continuous plane. In this way, the commands of activation have rendered unemployment an activity that is continuous with work and working, albeit without a wage. In this context, it is important to appreciate that the infrastructures of activation are now so embedded and elaborated that markets have emerged for the unpaid labor of the unemployed."
Lisa Adkins The Time of Money (2018) p.154
