This contribution coins the term indefatigable worker as a lens to examine the concerted efforts by state and capital forces, since the early 20th century, to devise methods aimed to reduce mental and physical fatigue among the workforce in order to guarantee the productivity and economic health of the nation. Different interventions have targeted the worker’s body from the early 20th century factory labourer to the more fragmented workforce under neoliberal capitalism and finally to the locked-down Covid-19 Zoom participant. Interestingly, each intervention was triggered by the onset of one global economic crisis or the other but cloaked in the benevolent garb of workers’ welfare. Ostensibly putting the well-being of the worker at the heart of this seemingly technical, ideology-free regime aims to make it difficult for workers to resist attempts to help them cope with fatigue and to challenge the conditions which cause their physical and mental stress in the first place.

这一贡献创造了不懈的工人一词自20世纪初以来，作为考察国家和资本力量共同努力的一个镜头，他们设计了旨在减少劳动力中的精神和身体疲劳的方法，以保证国家的生产力和经济健康。从20世纪初期的工厂工人到新自由主义资本主义下更加分散的劳动力，最后是锁定的Covid-19 Zoom参与者，各种干预措施的目标是工人的身体。有趣的是，每种干预都是由一场全球经济危机或另一场全球经济危机的爆发触发的，但掩盖了仁慈的工人福利。表面上看，将工人的福祉置于这种看似技术性的核心位置，