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A world beyond work? : labour, money and the capitalist state between crisis and utopia / Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Frederick Harry Pitts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dinerstein, Ana C., author.
- Pitts, Frederick Harry, author.
- Series:
- SocietyNow.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Work-life balance.
- Labor.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]
- Summary:
- This book mounts a forceful critique of fashionable thinking on the possibility of a post-work, post-capitalist society achieved through automation, a basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero, suggesting this popular utopia is nothing of the sort.
- Sensing a future beyond work lurking in an age of crisis, the 'post-capitalist' utopias of today spread the idea of a permanent escape from work aided by the automation of production, a universal basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero. By skilfully unpicking the political economy of contemporary work and its futures, this book mounts a forceful critique of the post-work society vision. Dinerstein and Pitts reveal that transitional measures towards a world beyond work do not do enough to break away from the key features of capitalist society, and instead potentially stifle the capacity for transformative social change. Proposing an innovative alternative, the authors envision the construction of 'concrete utopias' that shape and anticipate non-capitalist futures.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. Post-work, post-capitalism, post-what? An introduction
- Chapter 2. Futures past and present: on automation
- Chapter 3. The post-work prospectus: on labour
- Chapter 4. Productivist mandates: on value
- Chapter 5. Pennies from heaven: on money
- Chapter 6. Basic income in one country: on the state
- Chapter 7. Liquidating labour struggles? On social reproduction
- Chapter 8. Hope and prefigurative translation: on utopia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78769-143-8
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