A World Beyond Work?

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is Reader in Sociology at the University of Bath. Her publications include The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (Palgrave, 2015) and Social Sciences for An Other Politics. Women Theorising without Parachutes (Palgrave, 2016).

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: ANA DINERSTEIN, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia (University of Bath Dinerstein, Frederick Harry Pitts, Frederick Harry (University of Bristol Pitts
• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781787691469
• ISBN: 978-1-78769-146-9
• Seiten: 232
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Gewicht: 252 g
• Serien: Society Now; SocietyNow
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Informatik, EDV > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien