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1 1. J. Chapelard, ‘Plumber Who Won £14 Million Lottery Jackpot Back at Work Fixing Toilets Two Days Later’, Mirror, 21 July 2016 (available at: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/plumber-who-won-14million-lottery-8462478).

2 2. Many lottery winners choose not to quit working, but rather to work fewer hours. The sense of work being something good in life and worth pursuing for its own sake seems to drive the decision to keep working. See, for example, the research findings reported in Picchio et al. (2018).

3 3. For historical studies of the concept and activity of work, see John Budd’s The Thought of Work (Budd, 2011) and Andrea Komlosy’s Work (Komlosy, 2018). For different critical accounts of work, see Edward Granter’s Critical Social Theory and the End of Work (Granter, 2009), Kathi Weeks’s The Problem with Work (Weeks, 2011), Peter Fleming’s The Mythology of Work (Fleming, 2015), David Frayne’s The Refusal of Work (Frayne, 2015), David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs (Graeber, 2018) and Josh Cohen’s Not Working (Cohen, 2018).

4 4. See, for example, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, Inventing the Future (Srnicek and Williams, 2015), Paul Mason, Postcapitalism (Mason, 2015) and Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists (Bregman, 2018).

5 5. See, for example, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age (Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014), Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots (Ford, 2015) and Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work (Susskind, 2020).

6 6. The Political Economy of Work (Spencer, 2009).

7 7. Marmot et al. (2020) discuss the uneven economic and social impacts of COVID-19 in the UK and propose a set of new reforms to ‘build back better’.

8 8. On the ‘build back better’ agenda, see ‘OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (COVID-19)’, OECD, 5 June 2020 (available at: http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/building-back-better-a-sustainable-resilient-recovery-after-covid-19-52b869f5).