Reclaiming Work

Beyond the Wage-Based Society

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by Andre Gorz,

Translated by Chris Turner

Polity Press

Due/Published October 1999, 196 pages, paper

ISBN 0745621287

Andre Gorz argues that Fordist societies have given way to 'non-societies', in which a tiny dominant stratum has grabbed most of the surplus wealth. He claims that we are in the grip of a new system which is abolishing work as we know it and restoring the worst forms of exploitation. But he argues that we should fight not against the destruction of work itself, but against efforts to perpetuate the ideology of work as a source of rights.