Rethink Work

Changing how we think about work

#Leisure

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  • faviconCultivating a Leisurely Life in a Culture of Crowded Time: Rethinking the Work/Leisure Dichotomy — many people wish to replace this paradigm with something more liberating and meaningful, a lifestyle that is not dependent on the traditional temporal schemata of obligation (2007)
    In: Democracy & Power    
    Topics: Leisure, Research   
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    Source: Scientific Journals    

  • faviconWhy Work? The meaning and significance of work have already changed fundamentally. The possibilities of increasing and using leisure time have meanwhile increased exponentially. To ignore these facts is to remain trapped in the gravitational field of classical social theory—from Hegel to Freud via Marx—and to make work a fetish [2017]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Protestant Work Ethic   
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    Source: The Baffler    

  • faviconThe benefits of doing nothing — An overactive ‘life drive’ endlessly seeks expansion, inevitably leads to burnout, and drains us of the energy needed to truly progress. Finding the time to do nothing is essential to reassessing who we are and who we want to be [2020]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human, Leisure   
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    Source: iAi    

  • faviconOf Course We Should All be Working Less — There’s a lot about work in our society that is undesirable and harmful. The fact that we have to earn a wage in order to have our basic human needs met — housing, food, water, electricity, transportation, education — is coercive. And if we’re not independently wealthy, we must work or starve [2023]
    In: Working hours    
    Topics: Leisure, Workplace Dictatorship   
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    Country: US   
    Source: Current Affairs    

  • faviconAristotle On Why Leisure Defines Us More than Work — Transposing his thought — that we often do not know how to spend our leisure time constructively — to the modern day, at one extreme we can find workaholism, at the other we find those who want to completely forget work [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Workism   
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    Source: Philosophy Break    

  • faviconPaul Lafargue’s ‘Right to be Lazy’ — While he exclusively focused on laziness as a form of rebellion by workers against the social pressure to constantly work, his treatise echoes modern research on the positive health benefits of boredom and daydreaming [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human, Leisure   
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  • faviconAmerica is facing a spiritual crisis. More leisure time is the cure — We haven’t made meaningful adjustments to the workweek in the 85 years since, and a reckoning is long overdue [2023]
    In: Working hours    
    Topics: 4 Day Week, Leisure   
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    Country: US   
    Source: MSNBC    

  • faviconBertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness — In his brilliant and timely 1935 essay, the philosopher suggests that “a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work…” [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human, Leisure   
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    Source: Philosophy Break    

  • faviconGet Capitalists’ Grubby Hands Off Our Hobbies — Christian moralists long promoted hobbies as a way to occupy idle hands, bringing the work ethic into our free time. Today hobbies risk turning into side hustles — yet they also point to what work might look like if it wasn’t about making money [2024]
    In: Predatory capitalism    
    Topics: Leisure, Protestant Work Ethic   
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    Source: Jacobin    

  • faviconSleeping in the office is making a comeback? Elon Musk would approve – but what about having a life? There is a wider belief there that asserting your right to leave, leisure and a life outside work is a duty, not a self-indulgence, since these were hard-won, historic social gains [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Worker Rights   
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    Source: The Guardian    

  • faviconWhat Will Leisure Mean to Us in the Future? It may require significantly transforming our deeply ingrained biases holding a life of work above all things else, and setting ourselves free to enjoy a more active, stimulating form of leisure, comprising the work we as individuals are driven to do [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: How to be Human, Leisure   
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    Source: Farsight    

  • faviconBurnout is not a thing inside us that has gone wrong. It’s the relationship between our ideals for work and the reality of our jobs. To counter it, we need to make work less central to how we understand our lives and spend more time with our families, communities and enjoy more leisure time [2022]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Mental Health, Workism   
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    Source: Welcome to the Jungle    

  • favicon“We’ve created a society where we fear boredom and we’re afraid of doing nothing,” says psychology lecturer Dr Sandi Mann. But in trying to avoid boredom, we miss out on its benefits. When we’re bored, we daydream, and that has been linked to creativity [2024]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Mental Health   
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    Source: BBC    

  • faviconBeyond the Grind: Envisioning a Society Valuing Leisure – Stuart Whatley’s compelling argument for reviving the leisure ethic in modern society, contrasting our work-centric lifestyle with historical perspectives that valued free time and intrinsic pursuits
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure, Workism   
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    Source: Gear & Grit    

  • faviconEarlier societies had a more clearly articulated understanding of how leisure ought to structure one’s life—it being the crucial space for character building, civic participation, worship, and so forth, depending on the historical context [2023]
    In: Good life    
    Topics: Leisure   
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    Source: Hedgehog Review