Soy Cámara: Why do we work? (2016)

"They would go to school, then 30 years in the labour market, two years of retirement and they would drop dead", says Guy Standing. Why do we work? To earn a living or to stop living? In this chapter of Soy Cámara, Yann Moulier Boutang delves into the history of work, of exploitation and of the disciplinary domination of capitalism; Guy Standing tackles the precariat (a concept he developed himself) and contemporary labour alienation and Judy Wajcman alerts us to the risk of acceleration at work. If the majority of people are unhappy with their job, why do we continue to put our faith in working? What do the new forms of work tell us about the new forms of social domination?