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Bloomsbury Academic
20 March 2025
What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and not hellish? How can we take the pleasures of work with us and eliminate the pains?

The answer: we need a post-work vision.

Questioning the received wisdom that work is good for you, that you are what you do and that 'any job is a good job', Post-work offers a new challenge to the work-centred society. This timely book provides a vital introduction to the post-work debate - one of the most exciting political and theoretical currents of recent years. It explores not only what the future of work will be like, but more importantly what the future of work should be like.
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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781350089976
ISBN 10:   1350089974
Pages:   280
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Helen Hester is Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London, UK. She is the author of After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (2023, with Nick Srnicek), Xenofeminism (2018) and Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex (2014). Will Stronge is Co-Director of the Autonomy Institute, an independent research organisation focusing on issues relating to the future of work, welfare and climate. He is the co-author of Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week (2021) and the editor of Georges Bataille and Contemporary Thought (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Reviews for Post-work: What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There

I have waited a decade for a book like this to come along. With wide-eyed clarity, Hester and Stronge give the field of ‘post-work’ the extended treatment and advancement it deserves. Bridging philosophy, labour history and policy debates, the book becomes more than a resource: it is a call for fresh forms of political intervention in a world where work is not working. * David Frayne, Author of The Refusal of Work (2015) * Post-work is the movement of our time. This is a super smart, accessible and comprehensive account of how to think about, implement and thrive in a society that is moving away from an outmoded work ethic to a new, more humane way of being. If you don't have time to read the many books being produced on this subject, just read this one. Essential reading for anyone worried about where we are going. Ideal for classes at all levels. And a must-have on the bookshelf. It's going straight onto my class reading list. * Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology, Boston College, USA, and Author of The Overworked American (1992) * A devastatingly clear critique of what is wrong with the world of work, and a dizzyingly exciting, but never naïve, guide to the possibilities that exist to create something much better. * Andy Beckett, Guardian and London Review of Books, and author of The Searchers (2024) and When the Lights Went Out (2009) *


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