Throughout the Western world, employees young and old are questioning work, its purpose and meaning. Some just reject it to build a different, richer life. A phenomenon that reverses the balance of power between employees and companies.
Like the young AgroParisTech graduates who called for “no perpetuation of the system
” and to “
refusing to accept destructive jobs”, many believe that fleeing is no longer a simple act of defection, but a new strategy of struggle.
“Revolutionary unionism, anarchist communities, runaway slaves… The imaginary of desertion draws on a rich history of insubordination to capitalism. A popular and subversive history.”
