Word of the Day – Antiwork

Antiwork (adj)

an-tee-werk

of or relating to a social and cultural movement that distinguishes between labor, which generates goods, and work, which generates wealth, and that rejects work as artificially incentivized, while embracing or elevating labor as essential or intrinsically rewarding.

First recorded in 1870–75 as a term in physics; anti- + work

Example sentences

“I’d rather work in an antiwork position on a farm a couple of days a week than be part of the corporate machine.”