Why Work?: Arguments for the Leisure Society - Paperback

by Freedom Press Freedom Press (Editor), Nina Power (Introduction by)

Why Work? is a provocative collection of essays and illustrations by writers and artists from the nineteenth century through to today, dissecting "work," its form under capitalism, and the possibilities for an alternative society. It asks: Why do some of us still work until we drop in an age of vast automated production, while others starve for lack of work? Where is the leisure society that was promised?

Edited by Freedom Press, this collection includes contributions from luminaries of the past such as William Morris and Bertrand Russell, contemporary theorists such as David Graeber and Juliet Schor, and illustrated examinations of workplace potentials and pitfalls from Clifford Harper and Prole.info.

Author Biography

Freedom Press is the largest anarchist publishing house in the UK. Nina Power is a lecturer at Roehampton University, a tutor at the Royal College of Art, and the author of One Dimensional Woman. Clifford Harper is the author and illustrator of Anarchy: A Graphic Guide and many other books. David Graeber is a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, activist, and Nobel laureate. Juliet Schor is the author of Born to Buy, The Overworked American, and The Overspent American.