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 |
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| Place of Publication | Bingley |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781787691438 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781787691469 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jan 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Society Now |
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Bibliographical note
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is Reader in Sociology at University ofBath. 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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