Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek

After Work

A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A vital and timely manifestol for a feminist post-work politics

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso / Verso UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 5883
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 143mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781786633071
• ISBN-10: 1786633078
• Artikelnr.: 55314244

Autorenporträt

Helen Hester is Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London. Her research interests include technofeminism, social reproduction, and theories of work, and she's a member of the international working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (SUNY Press, 2014), Xenofeminism (Polity, 2018), and Post-Work (Bloomsbury, forthcoming, with Will Stronge). Nick Srnicek is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams).

Rezensionen

We are taught to think that there's no alternative to the sad model of social reproduction centered on the single-family home and privatized family. Here's is a practical and creative guide to how we might begin to move beyond that paradigm. Kathi Weeks, author of The Problem With Work