Making Light Work: An End to Toil in the Twenty-First Century

by David Spencer

Book Overview

Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure?

In this book David A. Spencer argues that work is only an alienating burden because of the nature of work under capitalism. He makes the case not for the abolition of work - which can remain a source of meaning and dignity - but for its lightening. Engaging with thinkers ranging from Marx...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509548637
• ISBN13: 9781509548637
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"