Post-work

What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There

AvHelen Hester,Will Stronge

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and not hellish? How can we take the pleasures of work with us and eliminate the pains?The answer: we need a post-work vision.Questioning the received wisdom that work is good for you, that you are what you do and that 'any job is a good job', Post-work offers a new challenge to the work-centred society. This timely book provides a vital introduction to the post-work debate - one of the most exciting political and theoretical currents of recent years. It explores not only what the future of work will be like, but more importantly what the future of work should be like.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-20
Mått:157 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:409 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350089983

Utforska kategorier

Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Helen Hester is Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London, UK. She is the author of After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (2023, with Nick Srnicek), Xenofeminism (2018) and Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (2014).Will Stronge is Co-Director of the Autonomy Institute, an independent research organisation focusing on issues relating to the future of work, welfare and climate. He is the co-author of Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week (2021) and the editor of Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought (Bloomsbury, 2017).

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I have waited a decade for a book like this to come along. With wide-eyed clarity, Hester and Stronge give the field of ‘post-work’ the extended treatment and advancement it deserves. Bridging philosophy, labour history and policy debates, the book becomes more than a resource: it is a call for fresh forms of political intervention in a world where work is not working.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: What We Will1. Shorter Working Weeks2. Unconditional, Universal Income3. Post-Work Politics With and Beyond Technology4. Freedom and Nothing Else5. Post-Work’s UtopianismConclusion: Post-Work’s FutureBibliography