Work Want Work: Labour and desire at the end of capitalism
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