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Jünger's most important theoretical work – prophetic and pioneering. Its echoes can be found in Heidegger, Deleuze, Baudrillard and Virilio, theorists of mass society. Reading it offers the chance to engage with the author's remarkable style in an argument governed by rigour and the principle of consistency, yet strikingly original in its concepts (among the characteristic notions he introduces are the "elemental zone" and "total mobilisation").

The book offers a comprehensive theory of modernity. It explores fascinating areas of social ontology, the philosophy of technology, political history and the anthropology of modernity.

The work was directly inspired by the First World War and its aftermath. As early as 1932, Jünger was predicting the decline of bourgeois society.

The worker of the title is an active force and the embodiment of the most important feature of the new era, in which a "total primacy of work" will reign. The conservative Jünger paradoxically develops Marx's theory here. Everything becomes a form of work: war, leisure, cognition. The author also shows the end of the age of the individual and the mass – two phenomena that, in his view, characterise the classical society of the nineteenth century rather than the contemporary world.