Table of Contents

Part I. In Which Anti-work is Given Serious Consideration 1. The Tenets of Anti-work. 2. Will, Bosses, and Consciousness. 3. Cults and Working from Home. 4. The Asymmetry of At Will Employment and the Loss of Autonomy. 5. The Unique Submission Required for Precarious Work. 6. Merit Misfires. 7. Pushing Back. 8. The Doubtful Horizon. Part II. In Which We Reflect on Some Possible Realities and Responses 9. Science and the Ox: Understanding Work and Workers. 10. Representing the Worker: What We Might Do. 11. Detachment: Lessons from the Bhagavad-Gita. 12. Alignment of Efforts: Teilhard de Chardin. 13. Thinking While You Work: Simone Weil. 14. Right Livelihood. 15. Note on Unions and Cooperatives. Part III. Coda: Lessons from Parables, Koans and Tales. Conclusion

About the Author

George M. Alliger has had over 60 articles published in journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Psychological Science, and Times Higher Education. He is an editor of The Handbook of Work Analysis. A fellow of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Alliger is now a Consulting Psychologist in the Houston area.

Reviews

"Drawing from thinkers as varied and vital as Simone Weil and Frédéric Lordon, Karl Marx and Frederick Taylor, Buddhist sages and Hasidic masters, George Alliger has written an eloquent and insightful series of reflections on the culture of work. Not only does Alliger offer a compelling meditation on how we worked yesterday and how we work today, but also proposes, in clear and cogent language, how we might all, by a more human and humane approach, work better in the future." –Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston, USA