After Work
- Author Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek
- Narrator Marisa Calin
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 18 July 2023
- Run Time 6 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Society and culture: general, Society and Social Sciences.
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What to expect
A vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politics
Would you let a robot clean your house?
When we think about work, we still tend to think about workplaces—if we think about reducing work, we think about reducing working hours and spending more time at home. But the home has never been free from work, and with the continued gendered division of labor, women still do the bulk of domestic activities.
As two-income families find themselves ever more time-poor, many look to outsource to cleaners, nannies, and care workers. More and more, it would seem, people are finding themselves without either the emotional or the financial resources to take care of themselves and each other. The home, rather than an escape from the work and its pressures, is in fact an extension of it.
After Work is a crucial corrective to this trend, extending its attention beyond paid jobs to the impact of domestic work upon familial relationships, social bonds, and our very conceptions of domestic space. What if we automated housework?
In this groundbreaking work, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek argue that there is a crisis that can and should be tackled. Only by rethinking the way we organize our living arrangements, redefining our domestic standards, and remaining open to the automation of work done in the home, they argue, can we imagine a world that is truly post-work.
Critics Review
“Scholar Hester and economist Srnicek examine the history of domestic work over the past century…focusing on five Northern European countries and the US…Offering an alternative model, they highlight traditions of shared duties in communes of the past…[and] in communal care arrangements…An earnest appeal to rethink why people work and how they spend their time.”
“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 is a practical and creative guide to how we might begin to move beyond that paradigm.”
“Why do breakthroughs of technology so rarely lift the burden of drudgery?…After Work tackles this problem and provides a new vision of a future that moves us past toil…Indispensable reading for anyone committed to extending the realm of freedom.”
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