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A
- A David Montgomery Reader: Essays on Capitalism and Worker Resistance (2024) by David Montgomery
- After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back (2020) by Juliet B. Schor
B
- Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor (2019) by Steven Greenhouse
- Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It (2018) by David Graeber
C
- Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (2012) by Richard Wolff
- Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (2007) by Tom Lutz
- Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance And What We Can Do about It (2018) by Jeffrey Pfeffer
D
- Farewell to the Working Class: An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism by Andre Gorz
- How to be idle by Tom Hodgkinson
I
- In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
- Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
N
- No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea by James Livingston
O
- Overtime: Why We Need A Shorter Working Week (2021) by Kyle Lewis & Will Stronge
P
- Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It) by Elizabeth Anderson
R
- Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-based Society by Andre Gorz
S
- Shadow Work by Ivan Illich (free PDF)
T
- The Abolition of Work by Bob Black (free online reading)
- The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
- The Case for a Four Day Week by Anna Coote, Aidan Harper & Alfie Stirling
- The Corrosion of Character – The Personal Consequence of Work in the New Capitalism (1999) by Richard Sennett
- The Culture Industry: Selected Essays On Mass Culture (2001) by Theodor Adorno
- The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives (2022) by Jonathan Malesic
- The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era (1999) by Jeremy Rifkin
- The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925 (2008) by David Montgomery
- The Importance of Living (1937) by Yutang Lin
- The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure by Juliet B. Schor
- The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work by David Frayne
- The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself (2015) by Peter Fleming
- The Political Economy of Work (2008) by David Spencer
- The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (2011) by Kathi Weeks
- The Right to Useful Unemployment: The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies (1978) by Ivan Illich
- The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (1997) by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- The Work Cure: Critical essays on work and wellness (2019) by David Frayne
W
- Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives (2005) by Madeleine Bunting
- Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire by Frédéric Lordon
- Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work (1988) by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt
- Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time (2020) by James Suzman
- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) by Studs Terkel
Online resources
Magazines
- Jacobin — International
- Labor Notes — US
- Libcom — International
- Notes From Below — International
- Organizing Work — International
- The Idler — International