Restructuring work in the UK: The Beecroft Report is just a symptom The Beecroft Report, commissioned by Cameron from one of his venture-capitalist pals and …
The virtue of idleness - Tom Hodgkinson Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler, draws upon a wealth of resources to shrug off the capitalist work ethic in favour of 'love, anarchy, freedom…
The problem with work - Kathi Weeks The introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries'.
In praise of idleness - Bertrand Russell Can't switch off from work? Envy those 'lazy' strikers? In this 1932 essay, Bertrand Russell, socialist and winner of some minor award called the…
A worker's critique of parecon Criticism of the idea of participatory economics, or parecon, from the perspective of a worker. Despite its theoreticians' grand plans, we resist…
Work experience In light of the recent controversey about the Work Experience schemes that McDonalds has taken part in and workfare in general, I thought I would share the most interesting experience of the…
The lost honor of labor - Robert Kurz In this provocative and wide-ranging 1991 essay, Robert Kurz marshals Marx’s critique of the basic categories of capitalism and argues for …
Women, the unions and work, or… what is not to be done - Selma James Excellent critique of the structural position of unions, work, and unwaged labour from a feminist…
Miserable worker The first of a bulletin produced by workers around the Manchester area, tirading against work, published in the Subversion journal.
Notes on the manifesto against labor - Jaime Semprun Jaime Semprun criticizes the Krisis Group's Manifesto Against Labor for clinging to what he refers to as the "obsolete" idea that the existing…
Workers against work in the Spanish Revolution - Michael Seidman The achievements of anarchist ‘self-management’ during the Spanish Civil War show that production…