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The Refusal of Work - David Frayne

The Refusal of Work

The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

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Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-35429-6 (ISBN)
CHF 33,15 inkl. MwSt
Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today’s work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.

In this thought-provoking book, David Frayne questions the central place of work in mainstream political visions of the future, laying bare the ways in which economic demands colonise our lives and priorities. Drawing on his original research into the lives of people who are actively resisting nine-to-five employment, Frayne asks what motivates these people to disconnect from work, whether or not their resistance is futile, and whether they might have the capacity to inspire an alternative form of development, based on a reduction and social redistribution of work.

A crucial dissection of the work-centred nature of modern society and emerging resistance to it, The Refusal of Work is a bold call for a more humane and sustainable vision of social progress.

David Frayne is a sociology teacher and social researcher, based at Cardiff University, UK. You can follow him @theworkdogma.

Introduction: The Work Dogma
1. A Provocation
2. Working Pains
3. The Colonising Power of Work
4. The Stronghold of Work
5. The Breaking Point
6. Alternative Pleasures
7. Half a Person
8. From Escapism to Autonomy

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 1-350-35429-5 / 1350354295
ISBN-13 978-1-350-35429-6 / 9781350354296
Zustand Neuware
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