Investigates the challenges of changing the work-centered nature of modern society and considers why people work and how work should be socially distributed. Discusses the work dogma-the financial and psychological risks of refusing work; a provocation-scrutinizing the concept of work; working pains-the phenomenon of alienation; the colonizing power of work-the broader impact of work on everyday lives; the stronghold of work-the scope for resisting the prevailing state of affairs; the breaking point, alternative pleasures, and half a person-case studies of workers, focusing on why they chose to resist work and the pleasures and hardships of resistance to work; and moving from escapism to autonomy-envisioning the future of a less work-centered society. Frayne is a lecturer and social researcher at Cardiff University. Bibliography; index.
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