Introduction
PART I. METAMORPHOSES OF WORK
1 The invention of Work
2 The Utopia of Work in Marx
3 Functional Integration or the Divorce between Working and Living
4 From Functional Integration to Social Disintegration
5 The End of Working-Class Humanism
6 The Ultimate Ideology of Work
7 The Latest Forms of Work - Search for Meaning (1)
8 The Condition of Post-Marxist Man - Search for Meaning (2)
PART II. CRITIQUE OF ECONOMIC REASON
Introduction
9 From 'Enough is Enough' to 'The More the Better'
10 Market and Society, Capitalism and Socialism
11 The Limits of Economic Rationality - Search for Meaning (3)
Economically Rational Work
A. Commodity Activities
1 Work in the Economic Sense as Emancipation
2 Servants' Work
3 Functions, Care, Assistance
4 Prostitution
4a Maternity, the Maternal Function, Surrogate Mothers
B. Non-Commodity Activities
1 Work-for-oneself
2 Autonomous Activities
12 The Limits of Sociology and Socialization: A Digression on the Notion of 'Lifeworld'
PART III. ORIENTATIONS AND PROPOSALS - Search for Meaning (4)
The Reduction in Working Time: Issues and Policies
1 The Target-dates Strategy
2 Less, Better, Differently
3 Intermittent Work, Self-managed Working Time
4 With or Without Loss of Income?
5 The Right to an Income and the Right to Work
APPENDIX: SUMMARY FOR TRADE UNIONISTS AND OTHER LEFT ACTIVISTS
1 The Crisis of Work
2 Crisis of Work, Crisis of Society
3 Working Less so that All Can Work
4 An Income Uncoupled from the Quantity of Labour Performed
Conclusion
Index