Tom on Alvin Jones
22 December 2007
Right-click-and-save this link to listen to Tom Hodgkinson talking about The Freedom Manifesto on the Dr Alvin Jones show, North Carolina and the world and click here to get the book from US Amazon.
"The work pattern was one of alternate bouts of intense labour and of idleness, wherever men were in control of their own working lives."
EP Thompson on work before the Industrial Revolution
EP Thompson on work before the Industrial Revolution
Events
Second Term at the Idler’s Academy
Following the storming success of the Idler’s Academy at Port Eliot, we are pleased to announce that we are running a second term. This time we are guests at the Curiouser Gathering 2010: Back to Albion, a small music and crafts festival in the grounds of Berry Pomeroy Castle near Totnes in Devon. It takes place on 3-5 September.
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Books
Idler 43: Back to the Land
The new 'Back to the Land' issue features a major interview with David Hockney who has also contributed two sketches. Essayists include Paul Kingsnorth, Harry Mount, Penny Rimbaud, Jay Griffiths and Simon Fairlie,.
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Idler 42: Smash the System
350 page Idler, a collection of radical essays by Alain De Botton, Penny Rimbaud, John Mitchinson, Jay Griffiths, Paul Kingsnorth, Oliver James. Published 17 June 2009. In Stock. Order now.
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The Idle Parent
Order Now. Published 5th March. "Wise, funny, practical and personal, The Idle Parent puts the fun back into parenting." Oliver James
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The Book of Idle Pleasures
A sumptuous compendium of one hundred pleasures, each lovingly described and illustrated.
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How to be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
"Packed with wit, anecdotes and ideas ..." Word Magazine
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How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
Take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle.
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I Fought the Law by Dan Kieran
"Very funny...should be at the top of Tony Blair's reading
list." The Times
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How to Fish by Chris Yates
Recommended to anyone interested in either angling or doing nothing.
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The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
"Read this eye-opening and amusingly written book" Daily Mail
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About The Idler
The Idler is an annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. It was founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson and his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The intention of the magazine is to return dignity to the art of loafing, to make idling into something to aspire towards rather than reject. As well as providing a radical and thought-provoking read, the Idler is also very funny. MORE …
From the Archives
"Institutions fear idle populations because an idler is a thinker and thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations. Thinkers become malcontents," Conversations: Terence McKenna
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