As it stands, work represents a highly naturalised and taken-for-granted feature of everyday life. The dogmatic nature of work is revealed when we consider the uncanny resilience of its ethical status, even in the face of some very troubling realities. 就目前而言，工作代表着日常生活中一种高度自然化且被认为是理所当然的特征。当我们考虑到工作的道德地位即使在面临一些非常令人不安的现实时，依然具有不可思议的韧性，其教条本质便显露无疑。-----------------------------Paid jobs continue to be promoted as a vital source of good health and character, the media continues obsessively to demonise the non-working scrounger, and an old-fashioned work ethic maintains its anchorage in policies designed to force people off welfare and into employment. The stripping back of the welfare state, which in recent times has seen a phased introduction of increasingly stringent penalties for the non-w...