Modern capitalist society runs on paid work. Yet for many of us, paid work is at best a frustrating experience. Some of us are burdened with too much work, while others fight the hard realities of precarious, low-paid, low-quality work amid persistent mass unemployment. So what if we rethought the whole system?

That's the ambitious challenge David Frayne takes up in The Refusal of Work. Drawing on substantial empirical research into the lives of people who are actively resisting employment--either by reducing their work hours to the minimum or by giving up work altogether--Frayne...

Modern capitalist society runs on paid work. Yet for many of us, paid work is at best a frustrating experience. Some of us are burdened with too much work, while others fight the hard realities of precarious, low-paid, low-quality work amid persistent mass unemployment. So what if we rethought the whole system?
That s the ambitious challenge David Frayne takes up inThe Refusal of Work. Drawing on substantial empirical research into the lives of people who are actively resisting employment either by reducing their work hours to the minimum or by giving up work altogether Frayne...