A World Beyond Work?: Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia

Sensing a future beyond work lurking in an age of crisis, the ‘post—capitalist’ utopias of today spread the idea of a permanent escape from work aided by the automation of production, a universal basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero. By skilfully unpicking the political economy of contemporary work and its futures, this book mounts a forceful critique of the post—work society vision.

Dinerstein and Pitts reveal that transitional measures towards a world beyond work do not...