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