Post-work
What it is, Why it Matters and How We Get There
1st Edition
Published on 23. January 2025
280 pages
978-1-350-08999-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
File size
0,52 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-350-08999-0 (9781350089990)
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02/2025
Bloomsbury Academic
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Persons
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).
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).
Content
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: What We Will
1. Shorter Working Weeks
2. Unconditional, Universal Income
3. Post-Work Politics With and Beyond Technology
4. Freedom and Nothing Else
5. Post-Work's Utopianism
Conclusion: Post-Work's Future
Bibliography
1. Shorter Working Weeks
2. Unconditional, Universal Income
3. Post-Work Politics With and Beyond Technology
4. Freedom and Nothing Else
5. Post-Work's Utopianism
Conclusion: Post-Work's Future
Bibliography
