For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society

by Gorz, André (1999)

Key Passage

It is economically more advantageous to concentrate the small amount of necessary work in the hands of a few, who will be imbued with the sense of being a deservedly privileged elite by virtue of the eagerness which distinguishes them from the 'losers'. (p.45)

Keywords

Industrialism, Industrial Society, Industrialisation, Social Change, Sociology, Social State, Capital State, Capitalism, Economic Nationalism, Globalisation, Chinese Context, Revolution, Education, Wages, Wage-Based Society

Themes

Gorz Citations

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Translator

Turner, C.

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