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After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

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After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

Editorial: Verso

Pàgines: 285

Any: 2023

EAN: 9781786633071

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Sobre el libro After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time de Helen Hester i Nick Srnicek publicado por Verso al 2023:

Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you’re confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In this ground-breaking book, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Examining the history of the home over the past century – from running water to white goods to smart homes – they show how repeated efforts to reduce the burden of this work have faced a variety of barriers, challenges, and reversals. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Hester and Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all, where everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all. It will require rethinking our living arrangements, our expectations and our cities.
Helen Hester

Sobre Helen Hester

Helen Hester (el Regne Unit, 1983) és professora associada de mitjans i comunicació en la Universitat de West London. Les seves línies de recerca inclouen tecnologies digitals, polítiques reproductives i el futur del treball. Entre els seus llibres s´inclouen Beyond explicit: Pornography and the displacement of sex (SUNY Press, 2014) i Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism (Routledge, 2015). És membre del col·lectiu feminista internacional Laboria Cuboniks, format per expertes de...

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