A world beyond work? : Labour, money and the capitalist state between crisis and utopia

Sensing a future beyond work lurking in an age of crisis, the 'post-capitalist' utopias of today spread the idea of a permanent escape from work aided by the automation of production, a universal basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero. By skilfully unpicking the political...

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Main Authors Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia (Author), Pitts, Frederick Harry (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesSocietyNow.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787691452
9781787691438
DOI10.1108/9781787691438
Physical Description1 online resource (232 pages).

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505 0 |a Chapter 1. Post-work, post-capitalism, post-what? An introduction -- Chapter 2. Futures past and present: on automation -- Chapter 3. The post-work prospectus: on labour -- Chapter 4. Productivist mandates: on value -- Chapter 5. Pennies from heaven: on money -- Chapter 6. Basic income in one country: on the state -- Chapter 7. Liquidating labour struggles? On social reproduction -- Chapter 8. Hope and prefigurative translation: on utopia. 
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