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After Work
- Narrator
- Marisa Calin
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 18 July 2023
- Run Time
- 6 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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
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“A meticulously researched and agilely argued plea for the reduction of domestic labor.”
Washington Post
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“After Work takes an important look at the implications for the domestic sphere if work is reduced.”
Financial Times (London)
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“Will get people talking about their interminable to-do lists. Anyone under thirty who wants to know what their life is going to look like should read it.”
Sunday Times (London)
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“Anyone seeking cozy thoughts about the joys of spring cleaning should look elsewhere…Clear and concise, with a lot of learning worn lightly.”
The Guardian (London)
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“An earnest appeal to rethink why people work and how they spend their time.”
Publishers Weekly
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“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.”
Jules Gleeson, co-editor of Transgender Marxism
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“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."
Kathi Weeks, author of The Problem with Work
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“American narrator Marisa Calin’s accent was influenced by growing up in England. In a British-sounding voice she moves through the basics, slowing down to deliver more emotional words with intimacy.”
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Details
- Author
- Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek
- Narrator
- Marisa Calin
- Duration
- 6 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 July 2023
- ISBN
- 9798200969036
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Gender studies: women and girls, Feminism and feminist theory, Society and culture: general
Synopsis
A vital and timely proposal for a feminist post-work politicsWould 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.
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