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ISBN13: | 9781786997289 |
ISBN10: | 1786997282 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 208 pages |
Size: | 216x135 mm |
Weight: | 232 g |
Language: | English |
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Work Want Work
Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism
Publisher: Zed Books
Date of Publication: 15 March 2020
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and an eclectic mix of cultural texts - from Lucian Freud to Google, Anthony Giddens to selfies, Jean-Luc Nancy to Amy Winehouse - Pfannebecker and Smith lay out how the capitalism of globalized technologies has put our time, our subjectivities, our experiences and our desires to work in unprecedented ways.
As every part of life is colonized by work without securing our livelihoods, new questions need to be asked: whether a nostalgia for work can save us, how ideas of work change conceptions of political community, how employment and unemployment alike have become malemployment, and whether the work of our desire online can be disentangled from capitalist exploitation.
The biggest question, at a time when the end of work and a fully automated future are proclaimed by Silicon Valley idealists as well as by social democratic politicians and left-wing theorists, is this: how can we propose a post-work society and culture that we will actually want?
As every part of life is colonized by work without securing our livelihoods, new questions need to be asked: whether a nostalgia for work can save us, how ideas of work change conceptions of political community, how employment and unemployment alike have become malemployment, and whether the work of our desire online can be disentangled from capitalist exploitation.
The biggest question, at a time when the end of work and a fully automated future are proclaimed by Silicon Valley idealists as well as by social democratic politicians and left-wing theorists, is this: how can we propose a post-work society and culture that we will actually want?
Table of 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 Limit
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