• Laziness
• Paul Lafargue

References for Theme: Laziness

• 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...

• Gini, Al
• The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure, and Vacation (2004)

• Lafargue, Paul
• Le droit à la paresse : Réfutation du droit au travail de 1848 (1883)

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