Imagining non-work - Kathi Weeks Kathi Weeks discusses how even our concepts of leisure are defined in relation to work, and how we might escape work's domination of life.
How to be idle - Tom Hodgkinson Sleep in, drink in the day and have sex at 1 in the morning, How to be Idle argues that we reject work ethic for a life of leisure.
Negative solidarity and post-Fordist plasticity Short piece on the hostility towards strikes and possibilities of a response away from traditional trade unions.
Work: reading guide Libcom.org's guide to reading around the subject of work and wage labour in capitalist society, and struggles against them.
Work: an introduction libcom.org's brief introduction to work, what we think is wrong with it and what we, as workers, can do about it.
The abolition of work - Bob Black Bob Black argues for the abolition of forced labour and instead its replacement by playful forms of production and activity. We have…
The language of labouring reveals its tortured roots An article by Jeremy Seabrook that originally appeared in the Comment is Free that analyses the etymological roots of the word "work" in various…
The road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell Orwell's examinations of the conditions for the working class in the north of England prior to World War Two and how he became a socialist.
Going postal: rage, murder and rebellion in America - Mark Ames Mark Ames examines the spate of US workplace killings and the phenomenon of going postal, suggesting…
Italy is top of European table for work-related deaths Eurostat figures released on 7 January 2013 confirm Italy’s shocking success: it is the country with…
Rejecting the compulsory jobs guarantee and the left's work ethic A look at Labour's compulsory jobs guarantee and the problematic narratives that inform the debate…
The problem with work: feminism, marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries - Kathi Weeks In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that…
