A World Beyond Work?: Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein; Frederick Harry Pitts

doi:10.1108/9781787691438

A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Frederick Harry Pitts

University of Bristol

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Bingley
Publisher	Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
Number of pages	216
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781787691438
ISBN (Print)	9781787691469
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/9781787691438
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2021

Publication series

Name	Society Now

Bibliographical note

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is Reader in Sociology at University of
Bath. Her publications include The Politics of Autonomy in
Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (Palgrave, 2015),
Social Sciences for An-Other Politics: Women Theorising
without Parachutes (Editor, Palgrave, 2016), and Open
Marxism4:Against a ClosingWorld (Editor, Pluto Press, 2019).

Frederick Harry Pitts is Lecturer in Work, Organisation &
Public Policy at University of Bristol School of Management.
He is author of Value (Polity, 2020), Corbynism: A Critical
Approach (Emerald, 2018) and Critiquing Capitalism Today:
New Ways to Read Marx (Palgrave, 2017), and co-edits
Futures of Work (Bristol University Press).

Keywords

Labour
work
State
capitalism
social reproduction
CONCRETE UTOPIA
UBI
AUTOMATION
post work
value
prefiguration
social movements
ERNST BLOCH
Dinerstein
Pitts
Marx
opne marxism

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences
General Engineering

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