Work Want Work - Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism

Zusatztext Excellent - a much needed reflection on contemporary work from a quite different perspective. Informationen zum Autor Mareile Pfannebecker is a writer and translator based in Manchester. She has published on Shakespeare, Renaissance travel writing and critical theory.James A. Smith is the author of Other People’s Politics and Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy . He is a lecturer in the English department at Royal Holloway, University of London. Klappentext How the logic of work has crept into everything we do! even as we articulate post-capitalist and post-work possibilities Zusammenfassung How the logic of work has crept into everything we do, even as we articulate post-capitalist and post-work possibilities Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Limit

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• Authors: Mareile Pfannebecker, Mareile Smith Pfannebecker, J. A. Smith, James Smith, James A. Smith
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781786997272
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-727-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, PHILOSOPHY / General, Social Theory, Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Labour / income economics, Popular philosophy, Labour Economics, Sociology: work & labour, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, For higher / tertiary / university education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher