anti-work Concepts

Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way

by Tanja Hester · 12 Feb 2019 · 231pp · 76,283 words

what we’re all taught is the “right way” to do things, you can craft the life of your dreams, too. This book is not anti-work. Work is a good and noble thing, something nearly every person ever born has had to do in some form, whether or not they were

Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need

by Grant Sabatier · 5 Feb 2019 · 621pp · 123,678 words

to during the week? The point is, you are trading the best hours of your week and your life for a paycheck. I’m not anti-work; in fact, I like working. Humans need to work to be happy. But like time, not all work is created equal. There is a huge

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford · 14 Jul 2013 · 395pp · 110,994 words

I like most for it: unplanned work. Firefighting is vividly descriptive, but ‘unplanned work’ is even better. It might even be better to call it ‘anti-work,’ since it further highlights its destructive and avoidable nature. “Unlike the other categories of work, unplanned work is recovery work, which almost always takes you

Buyology

by Martin Lindstrom · 14 Jul 2008 · 83pp · 7,274 words

they had planted pornographic images of Brad Pitt in the movie in a deliberate attempt, according to one Web site, to enhance the film’s “anti-work message and revolutionary tone.” Accusations of subliminal manipulation have been leveled at musicians from Led Zeppelin (play “Stairway to Heaven” backward and you’ll supposedly

The Left Case Against the EU

by Costas Lapavitsas · 17 Dec 2018 · 221pp · 46,396 words

the union.13 From this perspective, the EMU and the EU are considered, at bottom, as arenas in which to fight political struggles. Neoliberal and anti-working-class policies, far from being inherent in the institutional functioning of the EMU and the EU, are seen as merely reflecting the transient balance of

Work in the Future The Automation Revolution-Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig · 15 Mar 2020

as an Obligation 79 If we pull back from distant-future utopias and address the here-and- now instead, anti-work arguments are a reasonable corrective to our excessive valorisation of work. Feminist anti-work arguments (for instance in Kathi Week’s The Problem with Work6) are particularly strong, contradicting the liberal-feminist and

The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell · 17 Oct 1972 · 208pp · 74,328 words

to be their allies. It is quite easy to imagine a middle class crushed down to the worst depths of poverty and still remaining bitterly anti-working class in sentiment; this being, of course, a ready-made Fascist Party. Obviously the Socialist movement has got to capture the exploited middle class before

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

by Judith Flanders · 14 Oct 2012 · 683pp · 203,624 words

’ of strangers. in 1847, the 3rd Duke of Northumberland died. He had attempted to wreck the Slave Trade Abolition Bill, was vehemently anti-Catholic and anti-working-class, as well as being considered rather stupid and extremely arrogant by the public and his peers alike. Yet ‘crowds of persons’ lined the streets

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age

by Roger Bootle · 4 Sep 2019 · 374pp · 111,284 words

thirties, median real wages were lower in 2004 than they had been in 1974.18 (The reasons for this are discussed in Chapter 6.) The anti-work preference We should not blithely accept at face value the “work is fun” explanation for continued long working hours that I discussed above. There is

Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle

by Jamie Woodcock · 17 Jun 2019 · 236pp · 62,158 words

the “work hard, play hard” workplace culture that would become so influential in Silicon Valley. However, the company later sold out to the decidedly non–anti-work Warner Communications.43 Around the same time, in 1973, David Ahl published 101 BASIC Computer Games, which included code for the games Chomp, a two

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to millions of new players, many of whom may have never played on consoles. In offices across the world, people found a new outlet for anti-work boredom. While consoles were becoming popular household items, this computer product reached an entirely new audience. The next stage of the competition between Sega and

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irresponsibility against clock punching, discipline, and productivity.”51 Putting this hacker culture to work is a complicated thing for employers because the culture contains this anti-work feeling. This tension creates a contradiction at the heart of the technical composition of labor. Employers attempt to capture the creativity of this subversive culture

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many of us face at work in our daily lives.35 While playing Pokémon GO at work is not going to change the world, the anti-work appropriation of gamification on workers’ terms should be celebrated. The widespread adoption of smart-phones has meant that many workers have found ways to access

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videogames away from the electronic supervision of their work computer. Pokémon GO was clearly able to capitalize on this anti-work sentiment, as the augmented reality (AR) mobile game was downloaded over 100 million times on Google Play and generated $200 million in sales. Nintendo’s

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their doings.39 While these were not dynamics that Huizinga was celebrating, we can see how they can be important for the development of an anti-work subjectivity. While there is a risk that this activity remains individualized, the social elements of many contemporary videogames provide a potentially collective route in these

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workers who could program them were put to work planning missile launches and doomsday scenarios, but workers found ways to hack these computers to design anti-work diversions that became the first videogames. At this point, the possibility of a modern videogames industry must have seemed quite unlikely, but a process of