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Rethinking Modern Work: How Workers Can Find Freedom
Can We Create a World That Is Not Centered on Work?
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Yang Zhao: Do We Really Understand What “Work” Is? Yuan Changgeng: More Companions Are Joining Us in Reforming the Workplace Wang Xingkun: In a Time of Crisis, Let Us Rethink Modern Work 1. Work, Labor, and Who Counts as a Worker? 2. Industrious or Lazy: What Self-Discipline Should Workers Have? 3. Work and Recognition: Where Does Our Social Self-Respect Come From? 4. Work and Meaning: What Can Work Give Us? Bonus | Social Insurance Is Only the Floor: Can Platform Labor Still Have Dignity? 5. Work and Time: Why Are We Busier as Technology Improves? Bonus | Delivery Workers and Social Insurance: Why Higher Pay and Shorter Hours Are the Answer 6. Work and Skills: Why Is Our Work Becoming Less Skilled? 7. Work and Autonomy: Does Freedom Exist Only Somewhere Far Away? 8. Work and Insecurity: Why Are Good Jobs Disappearing? 9. Work and Health: Why Has Work Become a Source of Illness? 10. Work and Family: Why Is Balance So Difficult? 11. In What Sense Is Lying Flat Innocent and Slacking Off Justified? 12. Is a Society Obsessed with Civil-Service Exams Healthy? 13. Why Is “The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get” a Lie? 14. Can Remote Work and Digital Nomadism Make Workers Freer? 15. What Kind of Meaningful Work Benefits Society? 16. Can Society's Dirty but Essential Jobs Give Workers Dignity? 17. Should Those Who Do Not Work Be Fed? The Malibu Surfer Problem, Part 1 18. Should Workers Love Their Jobs? The Malibu Surfer Problem, Part 2 19. Domestic Labor: Socialized or Marketized? 20. How Should We Understand Leisure Within the Work-Consumption Trap? Conclusion: Toward Post-Work Life and Freedom for Workers Wang Xingkun × Sun Zhe × Yang Shao: Stable Jobs Are Disappearing—What Remains? Wang Xingkun × Diandian × dy: Must Today's Workers Deliberately Practice Resting? Wang Xingkun × dy: Why Is Work Becoming More Painful? Wang Xingkun × Xie Jing × dy: From White-Collar Staff to Workers to Beasts of Burden—Self-Demeaning or Progress? Wang Xingkun × Liu Yunshan × Yang Shao: When Simply Having a Job Becomes a Luxury, How Should We Imagine Work's Future?