The Lafargue, Paul 1842-1911 creator Kerr, Charles H. 1860-1944 text utu 2016 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Right to Be Lazy, and Other Studies" by Paul Lafargue is a book published in 1883. French socialist Lafargue challenges the labor movement's fight for longer working hours, arguing that wage labor equals slavery. He proposes workers should demand leisure and joy instead of eight-hour workdays. Lafargue believes automation could reduce work to three or four hours daily, freeing time for relaxation, friendship, and self-realization. He controversially advocates for the right to be lazy over the right to work. (This is an automatically generated summary.) The right to be lazy -- Socialism and the intellectuals -- The bankruptcy of capitalism -- The woman question -- The socialist ideal -- The rights of the horse and the rights of man. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Lazy Release date is 2016-09-05 Produced by Turgut Dincer, Christian Boissonnas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Original publication data not identified Socialism Social problems Working class Hours of labor HD Original publication data not identified 07023081 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52984 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52984 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134224.0 52984