AS FEATURED IN THE OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTEST LIBRARY
Everybody knows a brown-noser when they see one. But how about a
freeter? A workbrickle? A jack? Can they tell downsizing from
greybearding or brightsizing?
With The Idler's Glossary (2008), Mark Kingwell and Joshua Glenn
offered a spirited defense of leisure. As confirmed idlers themselves,
they assured us their Glossary could provide "everything you need to
know about how to conduct a life." Today, however, as we recover from
the worst global recession since 1929, the work-world is a very
different place. In order to understand it better, our anti-capitalist
etymologists are therefore putting down their cigars, picking up their
shovels, and drudging out English from the ditch of corporate jargon.
For anyone who's ever had to moil for high muckety-mucks, The Wage
Slave's Glossary is essential reading--as the moral wit of Kingwell &
Glenn is indispensable to the present age.