Work FlowsWork Flows investigates the emergence of "flow" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with fluid channeling as immanent to vertical power structureswhether that verticality derives from the state, as in Stalin's Soviet Union and present day Russia, or from the proliferation of corporate monopolies, as in the contemporary Anglo American West. Originating in pre revolutionary bio utopianism, the