• In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays is a 1935 collection of essays by the philosopher Bertrand Russell. The collection includes essays on the subjects...
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    punishment of idleness in the form of destitution and starvation. Philosopher Bertrand Russell published In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays in 1935, exploring...
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    labor: idleness and workplace resistance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Russell, Bertrand (2004). In praise of idleness and other essays. New ed...
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  • Bullshit Jobs (category Literature critical of work and the work ethic)
    hundreds of testimonials from workers with meaningless jobs and revised his essay's case into book form; Simon & Schuster published the book in May 2018...
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    Allen & Unwin 1934. Freedom and Organization, 1814–1914. London: George Allen & Unwin 1935. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. London: George Allen &...
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  • This is considered a rising trend and it underscores the relative power of the employers in the job market. These type of job ads may have catchy titles...
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  • titled Office Space: Idle Profits, on iOS and Android in 2017. It was a free-to-play idle clicker that offered in-app purchases. In 2022 it was shut down...
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  • anxiety and dread that commonly occur on Sundays for employees as the weekend ends, and the workweek resume on Monday. The sinking feeling of malaise...
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    Hocart, of the origins of human sovereignty in cosmological ritual. Graeber contributed essays on the Shilluk and Merina kingdoms, and a final essay that...
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    Friedrich Nietzsche (category Critics of work and the work ethic)
    of nihilism and the possibilities it offers, as seen in his statement that "I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of...
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  • Precariat (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
    proletariat class of industrial workers in the 20th century who lacked their own means of production and hence sold their labor to live, members of the precariat...
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  • Work ethic (category Criticism of work)
    half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, or rather...
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  • paradise in the here and now. The Idler was launched in 1993 when its editor, Tom Hodgkinson, was 25. The title came from a series of essays by Samuel...
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  • developments in antiwork philosophies. Phrases and terms commonly used by proponents of lazy girl jobs, such as "act your wage" and "burnout" soared in popularity...
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    as hours worked in excess of forty hours per week "that the employer makes compulsory with the threat of job loss or the threat of other reprisals such...
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  • activities. In doing so, employees alleviate the stress and anxiety associated with the beginning of the work week by making Mondays more manageable and less...
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    Critique of work Diligence Discipline Dopamine Executive function Goldbricking Goofing off Histamine In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Kurt von...
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  • Post-work society (category Impact of automation)
    9782743653729 Critique of work Four-day workweek In Praise of Idleness Humans Need Not Apply Imagination age Post-capitalism Refusal of work Tang ping ("lying...
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  • Careerism (category Criticism of work)
    acknowledgements through praise and material possessions, whether it be a new office, a raise or a congratulations in front of an individual's colleagues:...
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  • N-po generation (category Cultural history of South Korea)
    marriage, and child-rearing. Many of the young generation in South Korea have given up those three things because of social pressures and economic problems...
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  • participation over productivity and contributing to empty office space. Coffee badging is a form of impression management in response to employee surveillance...
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    German. In 1923, the German psychologist Kurt Schneider coined the concept of the asthenic personality. This became established in Germany and other places...
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  • Madeleine Bunting (category Critics of work and the work ethic)
    Her most recent series of essays for BBC Radio 3 was on the idea of Home, and broadcast in March 2020. Previous series of essays include 'Are You Paying...
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  • of the commons In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays, an essay by Bertrand Russell on the subject of the relationships between spending, saving and labour...
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  • downturn when the risk of failure is highest. Other research has expanded the definition of the glass cliff phenomenon to include racial and ethnic minority...
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  • Wendela E; Houtman, Irene L; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Kittel, France; Knutsson, Anders; Koskenvuo, Markku; Lunau, Thorsten; Madsen, Ida E H; Nielsen, Martin L;...
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  • the body and mind ... The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift...
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  • Tang ping (category Criticism of work)
    Sina Weibo and Douban. The idea was praised by many and inspired numerous memes, and has been described as a sort of spiritual movement. Business magazine...
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  • Honeymoon-hangover effect (category Industrial and organizational psychology)
    The first stage of the honeymoon hangover effect is referred to as “deterioration”, in which employees experience job dissatisfaction and leave their old...
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  • 996 working hour system (category Economy of China)
    Numerous overwork deaths and suicides have occurred during past decades due to the 996 system and other overtime work systems in China. In 2020, a study found...
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