The Great Resignation is here. Workers are quitting in record numbers, demanding higher wages and better treatment. At the same time, a Reddit community called ‘antiwork’ is providing an outlet for frustrated employees, a platform to organise collective action, and a place to philosophise about a friendlier future of work. Where did this movement come from, and what’s behind the palpable discontent with the modern workplace?

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Antiwork subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/antiwork

More info on the productivity-pay gap from the Economic Policy Institute: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-...

Chart showing latest quitting figures: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JT...

Declining working hours: https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
... and also: https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-...

History of US minimum wage graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FE...

Keynes’ essay from 1929: http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ11...

Doreen's website: www.abolishwork.com

Contributors:
Anthony Klotz, Texas A&M University
Doreen Ford, moderator of r/antiwork
Sylvia Allegretto, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Hunnicutt, University of Iowa
Tom Hodgkinson, The Idler magazine (https://www.idler.co.uk/)

Special thanks:
David Frayne
Autonomy (think tank)

Further reading:
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
The Refusal of Work by David Frayne
The Abolition of Work by Bob Black
Work by James Sulzman

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