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I Do Not Dream of Labour: A Verso Reading List

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Verso Books22 August 2023

I Do Not Dream of Labour: A Verso Reading List

I wasn't born to work.

Throughout your time in education you will be asked: ‘So, what’s your dream job?’. But what if you do not dream of labour? And what to dream of them? Perhaps a list of post-work books for thinking beyond the confines of capitalism...

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  • Cyberboss

    Cyberboss

    by Craig Gent

    Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasi...
  • Work

    Work

    by Andrea Komlosy

    Translated by Loren Balhorn and Jacob Watson

    Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history ...
  • Tokens

    Tokens

    by Rachel O'Dwyer

    Longlisted for the FT Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023 - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, WiredWherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms...
  • Class War

    Class War

    by Mark Steven

    A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the...
  • The Future is Degrowth

    The Future is Degrowth

    by Matthias Schmelzer, Aaron Vansintjan and Andrea Vetter

    Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalis...
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  • Happy Hour

    Happy Hour

    by Marlowe Granados

    With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados’s stunning début brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York CityRefreshing and wry in ...
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  • Inventing the Future

    Inventing the Future

    by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams

    Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.Inve...
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  • Breaking Things at Work

    Breaking Things at Work

    by Gavin Mueller

    In the Nineteenth-century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English country...
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  • Our Own Time

    Our Own Time

    by Philip S. Foner and David R. Roediger

    Our Own Time retells the story of American labor by focusing on the politics of time and the movements for a shorter working day. It argues that the length of the working day has been the central i...
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  • The Care Manifesto

    The Care Manifesto

    by The Care Collective

    The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis: from intimate care—childcare, healthcare, elder care—to care for the natural world. We live in a world where careless...
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  • Mutual Aid

    Mutual Aid

    by Dean Spade

    Mutual Aid is a radical handbook for anyone who grasps the severity of the global poly-crisis and wants a community-based means to fight back. Dean Spade — lawyer, academic, writer, and activist — ...

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