I don't dream of labour... I dream of the beach

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  After Work

  by Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek

  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, cleanin...
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  Troublemaking

  by Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock

  There has been an explosion of organising among workers many assumed to be unorganisable, from delivery drivers in London to tech workers in Silicon Valley. The culmination of years of conversation...
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  Post-Growth Living

  by Kate Soper

  The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposa...
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  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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  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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  Overtime

  by Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge

  Overtime is about the politics of time, and specifically the amount of time that we spend labouring within capitalist society. It argues that reactivating the longstanding demand for shorter workin...
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  Working Girl

  by Sophia Giovannitti

  Working Girl explores the worlds of sex and art, asking what happens when both become subordinate to the marketplace. In this searching and provocative inquiry, Sophia Giovannitti describes her own...
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  We Want Everything

  by Nanni Balestrini

  Introduction by Rachel Kushner

  It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded. Across the north of the country, factory workers stormed out on strike, demanding better pay and working conditions. The slogan “We Want Everything” r...
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  Work Without the Worker

  by Phil Jones

  We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a ...
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  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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  How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century

  by Erik Olin Wright

  Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solid...
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  Automation and the Future of Work

  by Aaron Benanav

  Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work ...
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  Why You Should be a Trade Unionist

  by Len McCluskey

  In this short and accessible book, Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union, presents the case for joining a trade union. Drawing on anecdotes from his own long involvement in unions, he...
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  Fully Automated Luxury Communism

  by Aaron Bastani

  Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone. New technologies will liberate us from work, providing the opportunity to build a society beyond both capitalism ...
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  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 ...
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  Feminism for the 99%

  by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser

  Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But don’t these issues impact the vast majority of wome...
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  Revolting Prostitutes

  by Juno Mac and Molly Smith

  How the law harms sex workers - and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justi...
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  The Care Manifesto

  by The Care Collective

  The Care Manifesto is the fiercely argued demand to place care at the centre of our politics. Our lives are always interdependent. It is by nurturing these ties that we cultivate a world in which e...
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  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 — ...