Jean-Philippe Deranty, "The Case for Work" (Oxford UP, 2024)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Jun 22, 2026 · 33m

A post-work movement is gaining popularity among academics, artists, and activists, in reaction to the many harms and injustices plaguing current labour markets and work organizations, and the loomingdisruptions that automation is likely to cause. This movement anticipates and welcomes the demise of work as a central value of modern society. Against this rejection of work’s significance, The Case for Work argues that our situation is critical precisely because work matters, that it is a mistake to advocate a society beyond work on the basis of the current state of work. Rather, because work…