Paid work is an absolutely central element of the culture and politics of capitalist societies, although the world we know, organized around employment, is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and belonging To a community. The stark reality of a society in which a few work excessively, while others are condemned to intermittent work or unemployment, is increasingly difficult to tolerate.

In this suggestive work, the sociologist David Frayne questions the central place that work occupies in the conventional visions of the future, revealing the ways in which economic demands colonize our lives and our priorities. From an original inquiry into the lives of those who actively resist getting caught up in strenuous work days to use, Frayne wonders what leads these people to disconnect from work, if their resistance is futile or not, and if they can encourage alternative forms of development based on a social redistribution of work.

Nothing baladí dissection of a society that has made work its cornerstone and the emerging resistance that questions it, The rejection of work is a bold call to assume a more human and sustainable perspective of social progress.

«It is the most interesting and complete book I have read about the domain that work has over our lives. Acute and very stimulating, everyone who goes to work every day should read it, if they manage to take time to do it ».

Sharon Beder, author of Selling the Work Ethic

"A rethinking of the work ethic that will appeal to anyone who has wondered if the work that is striving so hard to achieve, or to conserve, is really worth it."

Ralph Fevre, author of Trouble at Work