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

• Main Authors: Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia (Author), Pitts, Frederick Harry (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
• Series: SocietyNow.
• Subjects: Technological innovations > Economic aspects.; Employees > Effect of technological innovations on.; Capitalism.; Social change.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787691452; 9781787691438
• DOI: 10.1108/9781787691438
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 pages).

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...