I begin with a simple-sounding question: at what point does a day’s work truly end? Whilst our jobs might contractually oblige us to work a certain amount of hours per day, it is clear that we do not simply step out of our workplaces and into a world of freedom.

热门推荐

1、Economic rationality has no room for authentically free time which neither produces nor consumes commercial wealth. – André Gorz 2、Gorz suggests that, at their most extreme, capitalist societies are made up of worker-consumers, in which economic arrangements are designed so that people produce none of the things they consume, and consume none of the things they produce.高兹指出,在最极端的情况下,资本主义社会是由工人-消费者组成的,在这种经济安排下,人们不生产任何他们消费的东西,也绝不消费任何他们生产的东西。------------------------The division and subdivision of the production process was said to imprison each worker in a narrow role, shrinking his area of responsibility, draining his work of creativity, and depriving him of any meaningful relationship with his product. In 2013, a public controversy emerged around the working conditions of warehouse staff (or pickers) for the online megastore Amazon. I will follow André Gorz’s observation that the prevailing cultural understanding... 3、Adorno questioned the extent to which workers are truly autonomous in their time outside work, arguing that the covert aim of non-work time is simply to prepare people for the recommencement of work: free-time is not free at all, but a mere ‘continuation of the forms of profit-oriented social life’. 4、The topic of this chapter is leisure or, more precisely, why we seem to have so little leisure, and why the leisure time that we do have is so often suffused with a sense of responsibility and anxiety.
发表评论

发表评论

提交评论

Hi,您需要填写昵称和邮箱!

  • 昵称 (必填)
  • 邮箱 (必填)
  • 网址
查看更多 >
(英) 大卫·弗雷恩

原作者:(英) 大卫·弗雷恩

(英) 大卫·弗雷恩简介:

大卫·弗雷恩,索尔福德大学研究员,主要研究工作与福利的未来。曾作为主要研究者参与英国与苏格兰公共部门的四天工作制实验。 译者简介 重命名小组,一个由学生、 研究人员和爱好者组成的志愿翻译团队。它的目标是通过新的语言( 重命名)去激活对日常生活的敏感度。该小组对当代社会生活 的各种症结有普遍的兴趣,关注后工作时代的政治和国内外年轻一代的生活状况。 (更多)

Copyright ©2023 读经典  |   渝ICP备2023004587号