Beyond Work Life, Death, and Reproduction and the Postwork Society (original) (raw)
2021, Discourse Volume 43, Number 2, Spring
In their "Manifesto against Labour" the German group Krisis states, "A corpse rules society—the corpse of labour."1 Work as well as the way we engage with it has become barely effective. We engage with work almost the same way we have been doing since biblical times. In Genesis 3:19 God says to Adam and Eve, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground." In Thessalonians 3:10, the apostle Paul writes "this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat."2 These two passages demonstrate the deep-rooted relationship between work and reproduction. Although there are many differences between the Old and New Testaments, the idea that one must work to live is not one of them. Since biblical times, work is seen as the only way to live until the day we die. Therefore, to live means to work.
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