Chapter TwoWill, Bosses, and Consciousness
The central anti-work concept of worker submission is critically examined from several angles.
One of the most important tenets of anti-work relates to the human will.1 Work, it is argued, requires submission to an organization. That central fount and mark of our human being-in-the-world, volition, is put under pressure and distorted by employment. It is significant that the motto of the Haymarket demonstrators in 1886 was “Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will.” That is, when working, whatever it is that we are doing, we are not doing our will – what we choose. And if we accept that what is willed, or negatively, submission, is at the ...
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