Anti Work Books
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,890 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,594 ratings — published 1935
The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.26 — 688 ratings — published 2015
The Abolition of Work and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,081 ratings — published 1985
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,593 ratings — published 2015
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.15 — 638 ratings — published 2011
After Work: The Politics of Free Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.93 — 569 ratings — published 2023
Laziness Does Not Exist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,233 ratings — published 2021
The Right to Be Lazy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.63 — 6,798 ratings — published 1880
How to Be Idle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,412 ratings — published 2004
The Burnout Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.85 — 30,572 ratings — published 2010
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.65 — 56,330 ratings — published 2019
Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.74 — 27 ratings — published 1990
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,480 ratings — published 2013
Let's Destroy Work, Let's Destroy the Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.45 — 58 ratings — published 2013
The End of Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.80 — 686 ratings — published 1994
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,479 ratings — published 1992
The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 385 ratings — published 2009
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.92 — 140,384 ratings — published 1971
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,356 ratings — published 2021
Book of Pleasures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.67 — 76 ratings — published 1979
We Want Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,123 ratings — published 1971
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.18 — 647,605 ratings — published 1996
Work: The Last 1,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.29 — 105 ratings — published 2018
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 880 ratings — published 1974
Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.59 — 381 ratings — published 2020
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,309 ratings — published 2020
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,406 ratings — published 2021
Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.65 — 65 ratings — published 2019
The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.56 — 110 ratings — published
Abolish Work: A Lazy Exposition of Philosophical Ergophobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.46 — 130 ratings — published 2015
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.65 — 126,748 ratings — published 2014
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 3.43 — 256 ratings — published 2006
Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.03 — 29 ratings — published 2015
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,674 ratings — published 1967
Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 76 ratings — published 1999
Critique of Economic Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.31 — 176 ratings — published 1988
The Revolution of Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as anti-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,566 ratings — published 1967
New Work New Culture: Work We Want And A Culture That Strengthens Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published
Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.99 — 159 ratings — published 2020
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,008 ratings — published 1996
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,919,217 ratings — published 1951
The Educated Underclass: Students and the False Promise of Social Mobility (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.15 — 20 ratings — published
The Working Sovereign: Labour and Democratic Citizenship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,752 ratings — published 2020
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,165 ratings — published 2013
Deleuze, Marx and Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 3.79 — 29 ratings — published 2003
Never Work: Essays against the Sale of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as anti-work)
avg rating 4.70 — 23 ratings — published
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