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A World Beyond Work?

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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 hour...
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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.
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Pages: 232
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Series: SocietyNow
Publication Date: 15 January 2021
ISBN: 9781787691469
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, Ethical & social aspects of IT, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Technology
‘Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Pitts' book is a fundamental contribution to the debate on post-capitalist utopias. The Coronavirus crisis has accelerated the morbid symptoms of austerity-driven capitalism, and we must develop new strategies to escape the increasingly authoritarian trends of nation-states. A World Beyond Work offers a blueprint ready to develop a future against and beyond capitalism. This will be an essential read for the next decade.’
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Bath. 

Frederick Harry Pitts is a Lecturer in Management at the University of Bristol.
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