Hope you have a happy New Year! May it be filled with slacking beyond your wildest dreams! What does 2015 hold for the site? New posts by new users, more op-eds, some re-posts from C4SS that never made the cut and more book reviews! And hey, maybe down the road our very own distribution for…
A while back my friend, supporter of the site and past contributor Ryan Calhoun sent me this story about how Amazon “solved” the problem of work for its employers. The problem being, that the Amazon workers wanted overtime pay due to the amount of time (somewhere around a half-hour) that they’d be detained before leaving so…
Not much to say but I hope your day is full of slacking, merriment, good cheer, good food, friends (or just yourself) and much much more slacking! Thanks to everyone for their support throughout this year! It’s been an amazing year and we only have more to come!
My book review on C4SS is coming along nicely so I thought now was a good time to link this. Also, laziness. There aren’t many videos of Iain around but here’s one I was able to find. It has French subtitles but hits on some points that I think most of us will be all too…
This story is a few months old but I’ve been meaning to share it ever since my friend William Gillis posted it on my Facebook wall so thanks William! Carlo Cani, an Italian miner “…confesse[d] he dr[ew] a pension despite inventing an imaginative range of excuses for not venturing down a mine in Sardinia over…
Hey everyone, as you may have been able to tell this site was down(ish) for the past day or so. Really sorry about that. Apparently it had to do with some sort of malware that was fairly popular. It got taken care of today, thanks in no small part to my friend Vinnie who helps…
Hey, everyone. I recently signed up for Reddit, mostly just to monitor the anti-work subreddit.But I thought it’d also be a good idea to try my hands at an AMA. So around 2:00 PM EST I will be doing an AMA about work, my favorite sort of pizza (hint: It’s cheese or extra-cheese) or whatever else people…
There’s no good format to copy and paste this on the site unfortunately but here are two ways to read this fairly classic essay anyhow: LibCom UMN.edu You can’t copy and paste things from the LibCom link (damn commies can’t be trusted to do anything right!) but you can from the UMN. If you want to…
Does the time bother you? Well, it bothers some social theorists anyways. Especially in the ways it disciplines us and makes us much more restricted in how we spend our days. Although the article on time discipline could use some (ahem) work (more references and citations for instance) it is still an interesting read if you’re…
(Dory’s Notes: Re-posted from here.) First published in War Commentary - For Anarchism mid-march 1944. In no characteristic is existing society in the West so sharply distinguished from the earlier societies, whether of Europe or the East, than in its conception of time. To the ancient Chinese or Greek, to the Arab herdsman or Mexican peon…