BOOKS

Find below a chronological list of the books I find interesting
2014

The Fissured Workplace, Why Work Became so Bad, by David Weil (HUP)

What Unions No Longer Do, by Jake Rosenfeld (Harvard University Press)

A Precariat Charter: from Denizens to Citizens, by Guy Standing

2013

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer

Free Time, the Forgotten American Dream, by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt

2012

Who stole the American Dream, by Hedrick Smith

Sleeping With Your Smartphone, by Leslie Perlow

The Responsible Company, by Yvon Chouinard & Vincent Stanley

What's The Economy For, Anyway? by David Batker and John de Graaf

2011

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson

The Gardens of Democracy, by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer

The Temp Economy: from Kelly girls to permatemps in postwar America, by Erin Hutton

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, by Guy Standing

2010

The War on Moms, On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation, by Sharon Lerner

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life, by Tom Geoghegan

2009

No Logo, by Naomi Klein, 10th anniversary edition

The Big Squeeze, tough times for the American worker, by Steven Greenhouse

2008

Love the work, hate the job, by David Kusnet (John Wiley and Sons) pages 97 to 149 about Microsoft's 'permatemps'

Revisiting Keynes, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, co-edited by Lorenzo Pecchi

The Predator State, by James K. Galbraith

2007

No-Vacation Nation, by Rebecca Ray and John Schmitt

2006

let my people go surfing, by Yvon Chouinard

2004

The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, by Jeremy Rifkin

2003

Take Back Your Time, Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America, edited by John de Graaf

2000

Cyberselfish: a critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of high-tech, by Paulina Borsook

1999

 No Logo, by Naomi Klein, especially the chapter 10 "Threats and temps" (Microsoft story is on page 231). A 10th anniversary edition was published in November 2009.

1997

Best of Temp Slave!  edited by Jeff Kelly

1993

The Overworked American: the unexpected decline of leisure, by Juliet B. Schor


1977
Travailler deux heures par jour, by ADRET  (To work 2 hours per day)


1963

Letter from a Birmingham Jail, by Martin Luther King Jr (April 16, 1963)


1962

The Other America, Poverty in the United States, by Michael Harrington

1932

In praise of idleness, by Bertand Russell

1931

Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, by John Maynard Keynes, within the Revisiting Keynes version (2008)

1883

The Right To Be Lazy, (English Translation), by Paul Lafargue

1880

Le droit à la paresse (in French), by Paul Lafargue

1877

An apology for idlers, by Robert Louis Stevenson