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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Zed Books
Publication date
December 15, 2015
Pages
270
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781783601172
ISBN-10
1783601175
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$24.95
Other format details
university press
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory | The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation | No More Work | Inventing the Future | Postcapitalism | Four Futures | The Problem With Work
Summaries and Reviews
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Modern capitalist society runs on paid work. Yet for many of us, paid work is at best a frustrating experience. Some of us are burdened with too much work, while others fight the hard realities of precarious, low-paid, low-quality work amid persistent mass unemployment. So what if we rethought the whole system?
That’s the ambitious challenge David Frayne takes up in The Refusal of Work. Drawing on substantial empirical research into the lives of people who are actively resisting employment—either by reducing their work hours to the minimum or by giving up work altogether—Frayne delves into the reasons that people disconnect from work, the strategies they develop for coping with not working in a society that demands work, and, perhaps most interestingly, what they do with their free time. The resulting book offers a fascinating portrait of an alternative approach to life under capitalism, and a bracing reminder that a humane and sustainable vision of social progress is possible.
That’s the ambitious challenge David Frayne takes up in The Refusal of Work. Drawing on substantial empirical research into the lives of people who are actively resisting employment—either by reducing their work hours to the minimum or by giving up work altogether—Frayne delves into the reasons that people disconnect from work, the strategies they develop for coping with not working in a society that demands work, and, perhaps most interestingly, what they do with their free time. The resulting book offers a fascinating portrait of an alternative approach to life under capitalism, and a bracing reminder that a humane and sustainable vision of social progress is possible.
Editions
Hardcover
from Zed Books (December 15, 2015)
9781783601189 | details & prices | 270 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.18 lbs | List price $95.00
About: Modern capitalist society runs on paid work.
About: Modern capitalist society runs on paid work.
Paperback
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from Zed Books (December 15, 2015)
9781783601172 | details & prices | 270 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Modern capitalist society runs on paid work.
About: Modern capitalist society runs on paid work.
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