La perruque

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La Perruque, a concept formed by Michel de Certeau, consists of the ways in which workers trick their employers into thinking they are working when they are actually doing personal things using their company's time and spare materials. (`The workers own work disguised as work for his employer.` --The Practice of Everyday Life (25))

This work is specifically not profit-related, but is instead creative. Example: An office worker blogging on company time, and switching the computer window to a work-related site when the boss walks by.

Applicable Quotes: `In the very place where the machine he must serve reigns supreme, [the worker] cunningly takes pleasure in finding a way to create gratuitous products whose sole purpose is to signify his own capabilities through his work and to confirm his solidarity with other workers or his family through spending his time in this way.` (25-26)

`Let us try to make a perruque in the economic system whose rules and hierarchies are repeated, as always, in scientific institutions...in these ways we can subvert the law that, in the scientific factory, puts work at the service of the machine and, by a similar logic, progressively destroys the requirement of creation and the 'obligation to give.'` (27-28)