Anti-Work Reading List

Anti-Work Reading List

Work now? Never, never; I'm on strike. — Arthur Rimbaud

Historical Essays

• Paul Lafargue: The Right to Be Lazy (1880) | https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/

• William Morris: Useful Work v. Useless Toil (1884) | https://eddieplayfair.com/2014/12/28/useful-work-v-useless-toil-by-william-morris/comment-page-1/

• Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) | https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/

• Herman J. Schuurman: Work is a Crime (1924) | https://beyondresistance.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/for-work-is-a-crime-by-herman-j-schuurman-1924/

• Bertrand Russel: In Praise of Idleness (1932) | http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html

• Edward P. Thompson: Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism (1967) | https://libcom.org/files/timeworkandindustrialcapitalism.pdf

• Fredy Perlman: The Reproduction of Daily Life (1969) | https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-the-reproduction-of-daily-life

• For Ourselves: The Right to Be Greedy (1974) | https://libcom.org/library/right-be-greedy-theses-practical-necessity-demanding-everything

• Marshall Sahlins: Stone Age Economics (1974) | http://www.primitivism.com/original-affluent.htm

• Zerowork: Political Materials (1977) | http://libcom.org/library/zerowork-journal

• Ivan Illich: The Right to Useful Unemployment (1978) | https://www.ica.org.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/Ivan%20Illich_%20The%20Right%20to%20Useful%20Unemployment.pdf

• Raoul Vaneigem: The Book of Pleasures (1979) | https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/raoul-vaneigem-the-book-of-pleasures

• Bob Black: The Abolition of Work (1985) | http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm

• Os Cangaceiros: Industrial Domestication (1987) | https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/os-cangaceiros-a-crime-called-freedom-the-writings-of-os-cangaceiros-volume-one.html#toc13

• André Gorz: Critique of Economic Reason (1988) | https://libcom.org/files/andrecc81-gorz-critique-of-economic-reason.compressed.pdf

• Alfredo M. Bonanno: Let's Destroy Work, Let's Destroy the Economy (1994) | https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-let-s-destroy-work-let-s-destroy-the-economy

• Krisis: Manifesto against Labor (1999) | http://www.krisis.org/1999/manifesto-against-labour/

Contemporary Books

• Bifo Beradi: The Soul at Work (2009) | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/soul-work

• Kathi Weeks: The Problem with Work (2011) | https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-problem-with-work

• CrimethInc.: Work (2011) | https://crimethinc.com/books/work

• Federico Campagna: The Last Night (2013) | http://www.zero-books.net/books/last-night

• Jonathan Crary: 24/7 (2014) | (https://www.versobooks.com/books/1570-24-7)

• Byung-chul Han: The Burnout Society (2015) | http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25725

• N. Srnicek & A. Williams: Inventing the Future (2015) | https://www.versobooks.com/books/1989-inventing-the-future

• Peter Fleming: The Mythology of Work (2015) | http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745334868

• Nick Ford et al.: Abolish Work (2016) | http://littleblackcart.com/books/culture/abolish-work/

• David Frayne: The Refusal of Work (2016) | https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/the-refusal-of-work/

Updated Sites

• Abolish Work | http://abolishwork.com/

• CLAWS | http://whywork.org/

• International Institute of Not Doing Much | http://slowdownnow.org/

• r/AntiWork | https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/

• The Idler | http://idler.co.uk/

• The Real Movement | https://therealmovement.wordpress.com/