Observed arrival · 2026-09-23
Capitalist Waste counts the work around essential services
A UK labour-and-provision project estimates how much working time in water and electricity is absorbed by market structures rather than socially necessary provision.
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- Readers examining UK essential-service labour and provision
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- Its estimates are modelled working-time capacity, explicitly not a count of “unnecessary workers”; current coverage is water and electricity.
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The homepage names billing, debt collection, competition, duplicated administration and preventable system failure as examples of work absorbed by market structures. Its headline figures are labelled modelled estimates based on current research, and the page explicitly cautions that they are not a count of workers society does not need. Further detail is directed to linked sector-analysis and methodology sections.
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