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Work Want Work : Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism / Mareile Pfannebecker and J. A. Smith.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pfannebecker, Mareile, author.
Smith, J. A., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Work.
Work--Social aspects.
Capitalism.
Capitalism--Social aspects.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages)
Distribution:
[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
Place of Publication:
London, England : Zed Books, 2020.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Summary:
How the logic of work has crept into everything we do, even as we articulate post-capitalist and post-work possibilities.
Contents:
Front Cover
Praise
Half Title
About the authors
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface: the putting to work of everything we do
1: Lifework
On not being a baker
Nostalgia for work
What will we do in the post-work utopia?
Literary communism
2: Work expulsions
The end of unemployment
'I would prefer not to'
Malemployment and disemployment
3: We Young-Girls
Histories of the Young-Girl
Amy or Peaches?
The hard work of being a Young-Girl
4: Three ways to want things after capitalism.
The Jetsons fallacy in anti-work writing
What does Silicon Valley want?
Repurpose your desire
Epilogue: share your limits
Notes
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
ISBN:
9781350224124
135022412X
9781786997296
1786997290
9781786999962
178699996X
OCLC:
1144887655

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