Autori
Gandini, Alessandro
Guazzo, Costanza

Titolo
Work Is not Working Anymore? The Rise of Anti-work Demands across Online Spaces in the Coronavirus Pandemic
Periodico
Cambio
Anno: 2024 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 27 - Pagina iniziale: 33 - Pagina finale: 50

Following the pandemic outbreak, discussions about the meaning of work have grown larger in the Western public debate. Within this setting, online spaces have emerged as a privileged environment for such discussions: particularly, the lively Reddit’s online community r/antiwork, where millions of users gather daily to discuss work-related matters. Based on ethnographic content analysis of a set of posts from r/antiwork, the article critically discusses the ‘anti-work’ trend. We show how this online forum has been able to aggregate a set of conversations aiming at ‘resisting work’, and argue that, following the pandemic outbreak, the neoliberal ideal of self realisation through work is undergoing a crisis. Digital discussion groups, such as Reddit, may open a new space for workers’ organisation and theorisation of new meanings of work



SICI: 2239-1118(2024)14:27<33:WINWAT>2.0.ZU;2-K
Testo completo: https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/16094/13276

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