Post-work

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.>

Préface
An introduction to the historical context, core arguments and radical proposals that have emerged in recent years around the topic of the future of work.

Auteur

Helen Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of West London, UK. She is author of Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (2014), Xenofeminism (2018), and After Work: The Politics of Free Time (2020, with Nick Srnicek).

Contenu

*Acknowledgements*Introduction: 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
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