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

Hardcover • 2023 • English

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

By Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek

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About the book

A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics 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 va...Show more

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ISBN

9781786633071

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2023

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Hardcover

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