Say no to work/对工作说不

In modern society, work is the primary source of income, rights, and a sense of belonging, yet it has also become a form of violence in many people's lives, depriving them of the right to eat well, sleep peacefully, and enjoy precious free time. In this book, David Frain, by tracing work theories since Marx, questions the central role of work, revealing its comprehensive colonization of our lives and the new forms of alienation in the new era. He also surveyed a group of people actively resisting the 9-to-5 work schedule; some temporarily stopped working to find work with sufficient value, while others had to stop working or reduce their working hours because work was damaging their health. In the book, David Frain attempts to answer the following questions: What drives these people to leave work? Is their resistance futile? And are they capable of inspiring an alternative solution—based on reduced working hours and a social redistribution of work? This book points out the pathological characteristics of today's work-centric society and firmly believes that the future may be different.

在现代社会里，工作是人们获得收入、权利和归属感的主要来源，却也同时成为许多人生活中的暴力，剥夺人们好好吃饭、安然入睡的权利和宝贵的自由时间。在本书中，大卫·弗雷恩通过梳理马克思以降的工作理论，质疑了工作的中心地位，揭示了工作对我们的生活的全面殖民，以及异化在新时代里的新形式。同时，他调研了一群积极抵制朝九晚五的工作的人，他们有的为了寻觅一份有足够价值感的工作而暂时不工作，有的因为工作损害了他们的健康而不得不停止工作或减少工作时长。大卫·弗雷恩在书中试图回答如下问题：是什么推动这些人脱离工作，他们的抵抗是否徒劳，以及他们是否有能力启发一种替代性方案，即基于工作时长的减少和社会对工作的重新分配。本书指出了当今以工作为中心的社会的病态特征，并且坚信未来可能会有所不同。