L’Apologie de la paresse (1921) by Belgian dadaist Clément Pansaers
- Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy
- Kazimir Malevich, “Laziness – the real truth of mankind“
- Clément Pansaers, L’Apologie de la paresse
- Samuel Johnson, The Idler
- Jerome K. Jerome, The Idler
Bravo! A favorite hobbyhorse of mine, as you can see at my blog if you search under the tag – WORK.
On the work-dada theme:
http://iamyouasheisme.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/on-to-unemployment/
Oh, yea…forgot this. I noticed that your featured book is published by Ca Ira press:
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From my own bib on idleness:
Ernst Bloch, ‘The spur of work’ (in Traces)
Adorno, ‘Free time’
Russell, ‘In praise of idleness’
PD Anthony, The Ideology of Work
Thompson, EP, 1967 ‘Time, work discipline and industrial capitalism’ Past and Present, 38, 56-97
Sahlins, M, ‘The original affluent society’, Stone Age Economics (also in Culture and Practice)
Max Weber, The Prostestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Marx on the shortening and lengthing of the working day: Capital Vol. 1, Ch. 10, 12, 15.
Casting the net a little wider, you could read:
Veblen, T The Theory of the Leisure Class
Adorno and Horkheimer, Ch.2 of Dialectic of Enlightenment
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
Foucault on discipline, etc.