In the 70s, his *Deschooling society* and *Tools for conviviality* brought me to a participant awareness of radical professionalism, as a historical movement of baby-boomers. His commitment to restored (re-invented) vernacular capability has been a keystone of practice for me since then.
This joined up with Andre Gorz' 'new working class', the Ehrenreichs' 'professional-managerial class' and Gramsci's 'organic intellectual', at work on the weaving of counter-hegemony.
- Illich 1970, *Deschooling society* webarchive 
- Illich 1978, *The right to useful unemployment - and its professional enemies*, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd. pdf
- Illich 198, *Shadow work*, webarchive
❝ Illich critiques what he sees as the contrived structures of desire present in modern commodity-intensive society. Shadow work refers to the “unpaid servitude” modern people tolerate to satisfy the desires experts suggest they need. Shadow Work extends his earlier critiques of the way institutions and professions in the modern industrialized world dehumanize by creating needs and controlling the satisfaction of those needs.
- Smith 1997, *Ivan Illich deschooling, conviviality and lifelong learning* pdf
- Cayley (ed) 2005, *The rivers north of the future - The testament of Ivan Illich*, Toronto: House of Anansi Press web archive
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