Social Structures, Political Elites and Ideology in Revolutionary Paris - Richard Andrews The bourgeois and authoritarian nature of the sans-culottes in revolutionary Paris.
The Abolition of Labour in Marx's Teachings - Uri Zilbersheid Uri Zilbersheid on Marx's little-discussed ideas on the abolition of labour.
Karl Marx on alienated labour An extract from Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts on the process of alienation of the worker from their work.
Libertarian socialism - Dave Lamb Dave Lamb looks at socialism as the resistance of workers to work and bureaucracy.
Work and the free society - Anarchist Federation The Anarchist Federation analyse work in modern capitalist society, what is wrong with it and what we can all do to help rectify it.
Useful work versus useless toil - William Morris An article on the nature of work by the nineteenth century libertarian socialist craftsman/artist and designer.
Questions for alternatives - Kamunist Kranti A selection of texts by Kamunist Kranti on work, and its domination over all aspects of human life
Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism - E. P. Thompson Thompson brilliantly explores the changing relationship to time in class society, describing the…
A ballad against work - Kamunist Kranti Indian communist group Kamunist Kranti's pamphlet about and against wage labour.
We don’t want full employment, we want full lives! Instead of more work, Ken Knabb argues against the rationality of the whole capitalist system which causes mass unemployment at the same time as…
Organising at work: introduction A basic introduction on why we should organise at work, and a few tips on how to get started.