Rethinking Work (and its Future) in the Era of Manifestos
After hypothesizing that the multiplication of manifestos, which characterizes the current era, can be analyzed as a response to the contemporary conjunction of economic, social and ecological crises, this article proposes a critical analysis of the way in which these manifestos address the issue of work. The first part considers the manifestos that promote or predict the end of work. The second part analyzes the way in which manifestos focusing on the ecological crisis and the crisis of social reproduction advocate a radical transformation of the ways in which work is thought and organized. A third part confronts the nature of the transformations of the organization of work that are supported by the manifestos whose aim is to decarbonate, decommodify and democratize capitalism, on the one hand, and by those that aim at overcoming the exploitative nature of capitalism, on the other.