The Abolition of Work is an essay written by Bob Black in 1985. It was part of Blacks first book, an anthology of essays entitled The Abolition of Work and Other Essays published by Loompanics Unlimited. It is an exposition of Blacks type 3 anarchism a blend of post-Situationist theory and individualist anarchism focusing on a critique of the work ethic.

Although The Abolition of Work has most often been reprinted by anarchist publishers and Black is well known as an anarchist, the essays argument is not explicitly anarchist. Black argues that the abolition of work is as important as the abolition of the state.

The essay, which is based on a 1981 speech at the Gorilla Grotto in San Francisco, is informal and without academic references, but Blacks mentions some sources such as the utopian socialist Charles Fourier, the unconventional Marxists Paul Lafargue and William Morris, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Paul Goodman, and anthropologists such as Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee.

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http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work

Friday, March 28th, 6:00 pm

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