(Nick’s Notes: The original article by JoAnne Swanson can be found here. All of the RTJC’s articles are under a Creative Commons License that requires attribution, non-commercial use and no re-mixing. I do not expect to make any money off of this post nor am I asking for folks to give me money for this…
Recently, a friend of the site sent me an article that really put the issue of work into the realm of the personal. Nico Lang does an exceedingly good job summarizing a lot of the pitfalls of what being a workaholic can do. Originally, I wanted to republish this in its entirety but it’s almost…
Mr. Kreider was gracious enough to allow me to reprint this in full. My many thanks to him for that and this excellent article. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when…
Nick’s Notes: You can find this article here. As for when part two will be up that is entirely in the hands of Charles W. Johnson (AKA Rad Geek) who helps run the fair-use.org site. The least treated problem of libertarian action in a statist context is that of institutional employment. More often than…
(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…
(Nick’s Notes: Re-posted from here. You can follow antiwork on their Twitter account or at their “related and more established Twitter account @NewsFrames“.) Over a decade into the 21st century, we seem as work-obsessed as ever. Is it time for a progressive reframing of work and leisure? Antiwork is a moral alternative to the obsession with…
Taken from here and excerpted from Gorz’s Critique of Economic Reason: Summary for Trade Unionists and Other Left Activists. THE CRISIS OF WORK 1.1. The Ideology of Work Work for economic ends has not always been the dominant activity of mankind. It has only been dominant across the whole of society since the advent of…
Re-posted from here. This essay was a big part of my own essay on anti-work that I presented at the 2014 Boston Anarchist Bookfair. I seem to work a lot. At least, I think I work a lot. Like many in the modern world, I find it pretty hard to tell the difference between work…
Nick’s Notes: You can find part one, here.) In my last entry I wrote about Vygotsky’s ideas about play in an imaginary situation. A key piece of his theory of play has to do with how rules and imagination help to form one another during games. In this entry I’ve written about where in typical development…
Nick’s Notes: So sorry for the lack of posts lately! I went to MICE this weekend and was swamped by that both nights to feel like adding more to the site. On the plus side we’ve got (more or less) a full week of posts that should go up this week if all goes well!…