02312cam a22003373u 4500 77029 UtSlPG 20260610134802.0 m cr n 260607r20251883utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 HD Lafargue, Paul, 1842-1911 Le droit à la paresse Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Lazy Release date is 2025-10-11 Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) Le droit à la paresse : réfutation du droit au travail de 1848 by Paul Lafargue is a political-economic essay and socialist polemic written in the late 19th century. It challenges the capitalist cult of work and the liberal “right to work,” instead advocating the right to leisure as a foundation for human flourishing. The book denounces the moral, religious, and economic glorification of labor, arguing that overwork degrades bodies and minds, exploits women and children, and fuels overproduction, crises, and poverty. Drawing on historical contrasts with ancient disdain for servile toil, factory reports of brutal hours, and the absurdities of bourgeois consumption and colonial expansion, it claims machines should liberate people rather than enslave them. It calls to ration labor across the year, reduce daily work to three hours, expand rest and festivals, and raise workers’ consumption so production serves life. A satirical finale and an appendix of classical authorities reinforce the central demand: reject the “right to work,” and embrace leisure as the mother of arts and virtues. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Paris: Henri Oriol, 1883 Working class Hours of labor https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k80117m https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77029 117753 117753