Work is Bollocks
Submitted by AnarchoDoom on Mar 6 2017 19:18
Why the working-class should control how work is done.
Work is a crime - Herman J. Schuurman
Text by Herman Schuurman, 'Werken is misdaad', published in 1924 by the Dutch group 'De Moker', when Schuurman was a young anarchist participant in that group. This text is remarkable for its time; it expresses disgust towards work without laying claim to leisure time. It is against schooling, long strikes, against the transition period [for communism] and advocates stealing and sabotage.
Free time and the pressures of employability
How does work structure our so-called “free-time”, even outside the office? And how can we break free of those bonds? In this extract from The Refusal of Work David Frayne talks about the philosophical basis behind anti-work politics
Let’s not abolish sex work. Let’s abolish all work - Laurie Penny
To describe sex work as “a job like any other job” is only a positive reframing if you consider a “job” to be a good thing by definition.
Pushing Dust: Work Report from Greenford Street Cleansing Gangs
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Mar 8 2016 20:03
We look at the company structure, the work-mates, the re-structuring and how the trade union engages with it.
Shift work disorder and the normalisation of exhaustion
Pharmaceutical capitalism brings us a new stimulant, and an increasingly mechanized body.
Messing with the drivers! Situation at Wincanton/Sainsbury's Transport Office in Greenford, West London
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 4 2015 16:32
Report about working in the transport office of a Sainsbury's distribution centre and general information about conditions and struggles of truck drivers in the UK and Europe.
Lines of Work: Stories of Jobs and Resistance (review)
By Scott Nikolas Nappalos, ed. (Alberta, Canada: Black Cat Press, 2013). Review by Jared Davidson, first published in LHP Bulletin 64.
Anarchy #118: the meaning of work today and tomorrow
The last issue of Anarchy magazine from December 1970 with articles about work at the time and in the future.
What will we do if the system can no longer create jobs? An interview with Anselm Jappe – Alexandra Prado Coelho
A 2013 interview with Anselm Jappe in which he discusses the crisis of the society of labor, the logic of the commodity and exchange value and its disastrous consequences for an increasingly larger part of humanity, and perspectives for positive social change.
