Contents

Preface: the putting to work of everything we do

1    Lifework

On not being a baker

Nostalgia for work

What will we do in the post-work utopia?

Literary communism

2    Work expulsions

The end of unemployment

‘I would prefer not to’

Malemployment and disemployment

3    We Young-Girls

Histories of the Young-Girl

Amy or Peaches?

The hard work of being a Young-Girl

4    Three ways to want things after capitalism

The Jetsons fallacy in anti-work writing

What does Silicon Valley want?

Repurpose your desire

Epilogue: share your limits

Notes

Index