[news] Happy Sixty-Fifth Birthday; Now Get Back to Work!

[Resist!ca]

"One of the most important far-left ideas floating around in the 1980s was the critique of modern wage-slavery, as articulated by the Zerowork group and a host of anarchist essayists, most notably Bob Black, author of 'The Abolition of Work.' The argument went like this: While ultra-rationalized production, technological progress, and general abundance were supposed to have created a society of leisure and plenitude, the vast majority of people in the West are in fact still forced to spend half their waking hours chained to a desk, with their every movement monitored by managers and computers, and only short measured breaks for lunch, until they're finally set free at age sixty-five....Well, all that's changed now."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/22/15249/704