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100 1 _aLafargue, Paul,
_d1842-1911
245 1 3 _aLe droit à la paresse
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Lazy
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-11
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _aLe 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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Henri Oriol, 1883
653 _aWorking class
653 _aHours of labor
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k80117m
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77029
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