On one hand, it relates to the capacity to mould nature with arts and knowledge (in Arendt’s words, the production of homo faber) on the other hand, it encompasses the unfree and strenuous human ac-tivity apt to meet natural needs with no poietical aim (the reproduction of ani-mal laborans). Considering previous discus-sions on work and servitude by prominent authors of Early Modern England (More, Thomas Smith, Hobbes, Milton, Harrington, Tyrrell, Sidney), this study first focuses on the two-fold meaning of the concept of work in Locke’s eco-nomic and political reflections. My research aims to investigate the multi-layered concept of work in John Locke’s philosophy, with regard to subjective freedom, political agency, and citizenship rights, so as to draw a framework of interpretation which may fo-ster a new reading of contemporary quandaries.
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