‘Capitalism is constantly striving to put every fibre of our being to work, including outside any official wage relation. Digital and globalised capitalism has gotten extraordinarily good at this.’
This week, Grace is joined by Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith to discuss their book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism. They discuss why we are working so hard, what kind of work is valued, and what a post-work future might look like.
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