Why Work?
Arguments for the Leisure Society
Published on 29. November 2018
224 pages
978-1-62963-592-7 (ISBN)
Description
Why Work? is a provocative collection of essays and illustrations by writers and artists from the nineteenth century through to today, dissecting "work," its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society. It asks: Why do some of us still work until we drop in an age of vast automated production, while others starve for lack of work? Where is the leisure society that was promised?
Edited by Freedom Press, this collection includes contributions from luminaries of the past such as William Morris and Bertrand Russell, contemporary theorists such as David Graeber and Juliet Schor, and illustrated examinations of workplace potentials and pitfalls from Clifford Harper and Prole.info.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oakland
United States
File size
5,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-62963-592-7 (9781629635927)
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introductions
- Beyond Waged Labour | Nina Power (written 2016)
- In Praise of Idleness | Bertrand Russell (1932)
- Useful Work versus Useless Toil | William Morris (1885)
- The Problems of Work
- The Tyranny of the Clock | George Woodcock (1944)
- The Problem of Work | Camillo Berneri (1938)
- The Art of Shovelling | Ifan Edwards (1947)
- Measuring Misery | John Hewetson (1954)
- The Wage System | Peter Kropotkin (1888)
- 'Who will do the Dirty Work?' | Tony Gibson (1952)
- The Dominant Idea | Voltarine de Cleyre (1910)
- Alternatives and Futures
- Reflections on Utopia | SP (1962)
- Collectives in the Spanish Revolution | Gaston Leval (1975)
- Significance of the "Self-Build" Movement (1952)
- Leisure in America | August Heckscher II (1961)
- The Other Economy: The Possibilities of Work Beyond Employment | Denis Pym (1981)
- Visions: Six Drawings | Cliff Harper (1975)
- Production: Need Vs Profit
- Editorials from Freedom Newspaper (1958-1962)
- Reflection on Full Employment
- More Parasites Than Workers?
- Workers, Wake Up!
- Wasted Manpower
- Financial Crisis
- Redundancy and Revolution
- Abundance May Compel Social Justice
- Time is Life
- Changing Times
- Wrinklies and Crumblies Discuss Punks and Joblessness | Colin Ward (1996)
- Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend | Juliet Schor (1997)
- Dark Satanic Cubicles: It's Time to Smash the Job Culture! | Claire Wolfe (2005)
- On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs | David Graeber (2013)
- Work | Prole.info (2005)
- Index
