“The figure of a slacker needs to mean different things to different people at different times in order to serve its complex function as a goad to examining our relation to work, as a role to adopt while finding our relation to work, as a critique of our culture's twisty relation to work and to leisure, and as a celebration of the same.”
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Tom Lutz,
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
