The Wage Slave's Glossary

A second volume of anti-economic etymological revaluation, playfully continuing the authors' search for a new mode of thinking about work.

About the author

Joshua Glenn: Joshua Glenn is a Boston-based journalist and scholar. He has labored as a bicycle shop manager and skateboard courier, a busboy and barrel-washer, a researcher and teacher, a handyman and house painter, a bartender and espresso jerk, and also as a magazine and newspaper editor. He lives in Boston.

Mark Kingwell: After some years of graduate studies in Britain and the United States, Mark Kingwell found he had inadvertently perfected a form of idling for which he could get paid. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, including the author of fifteen books.

(Pseud) Seth: Seth is the cartoonist behind the painfully infrequent comic book series Palookaville. His books include It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken, Wimbledon Green, Bannock, Beans and Black Tea, and Clyde Fans Book One. His books have been translated into five languages.

Summary

A second volume of anti-economic etymological revaluation, playfully continuing the authors' search for a new mode of thinking about work.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Glenn, Mark Kingwell
• Assisted by: Seth (Illustration), (Pseud) Seth (Illustration)
• Publisher: Biblioasis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2011
• EAN: 9781926845173
• ISBN: 978-1-926845-17-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 101 mm x 150 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 123 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education