• Idleness

References for Theme: Idleness

• Eisenberger, Robert
• Blue Monday: The Loss of the Work Ethic in America (1989)

• Foucault, Michel
• The Punitive Society. Lectures at the Collège de France 1972-1973 (2015)

  (p.189) Certainly, the nineteenth century did not invent idleness, but one could write a whole history of laziness, that is to say not of leisure activities—which is how idleness has been codified, institutionalized, as a certain way of distributing non-work across the cycles of production, integrating idleness into the economy by taking it up and controlling it within a system of consumption—but of the ways one evades the obligation of work, steals labor-power, and avoids letting oneself be held and pinned down by the production apparatus. Now, if a history of laziness is possible, it is because it is not at issue in the same way in the different struggles...

• Gagnier, Regenia; Dupré, John
• "On work and idleness" (1995)

• Hodgkinson, Tom
• How to be Idle (2005)

• Hollands, Robert
• "Crap Jobs, ‘Govy Schemes’ and ‘Trainspotting’: Reassessing The Youth, Employment and Idleness Debate" (1998)

• Lafargue, Paul
• The Right to Be Lazy: Being a Refutation of the "Right to Work" of 1848 (1904)

• Lane, Jeremy F
• "Emancipation from Work or Emancipation through Work? Aesthetics of Work and Idleness in Recent French Thought" (2016)

• Levine, Andrew
• "Fairness to Idleness is There A Right Not to Work?" (1995)

• Lewicki, James
• "The problem of idleness: An Arendtian justification of Universal Basic Income in the face of mass automation" (2019)

• O'Connor, Brian
• Idleness: A Philosophical Essay (2018)

• Paulsen, Roland
• Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance (2014)

• Rabinbach, Anson
• "From Idleness to Fatigue" (1990)

• Russell, Bertrand
• In Praise of Idleness: A Timeless Essay (2018)

  what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. The second kind is capable of indefinite extension: there are not only those who give orders, but those who give advice as to what orders should be given. Usually two opposite kinds of advice are given simultaneously by two organized bodies of men; this is called politics. The skill required for this kind...

• Sanne, Christer
• "A Green Approach to Work And Idleness" (1998)

• Schleuning, Neala
• Idle Hands and Empty Hearts: Work and Freedom in the United States (1990)

• Strazhas, Nedda
• "Semiotics of work and idleness" (1993)

• Tanabe, Shihori
• "How can artificial intelligence and humans work together to fight against cancer?" (2020)

• Wheelock, Jane; Vail, John
• Work and Idleness: The Political Economy of Full Employment (2012)