Books Articles | Rethink Work

The People in the Shop; David Montgomery and the vitality of labor history — Many of the service-sector workers who have started to organize in recent years see their freedom at work and their sense of power to do it well threatened by the arbitrary power of their bosses [2024]

In: Democracy & Power

Topics: Books, Workplace Dictatorship

Country: US

Source: The Nation

The Shame of Work — Review of “The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work”, by David Frayne; If ever a book was designed to help you question the value of the work ethic and look anew at our modern obsession with productivity and promotion, this is it [2016]

In: Good life

Topics: Books, Protestant Work Ethic, Workism

Source: The New Rambler Review