Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation

Aronowitz, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0415917832 / ISBN 13: 9780415917834

Published by Routledge, 1998

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This text is a collection of essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the future of work. The introduction provides a framework for radical reappraisal of work and suggests an alternative oraganization of labour. Editor(s): Aronwitz, Stanley; Cutler, Jonathan; Aronowitz, Stanley. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399. . 1998. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415917832
• ISBN 13: 9780415917834
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, ThePost-Work Manifesto,, provides the framework for a radical reappraisal of work and suggests an alternative organization of labor. The provocative essays that follow focus on specific issues that are key to our reconceptualization of the notion and practice of work, with coverage of the fight for shorter hours, the relationship between school and work, and the role of welfare, among others.

Armed with an interdisciplinary approach, Post-Work looks beyond the rancorous debates around welfare politics and lays out the real sources of anxiety in the modern workplace. The result is an offering of hope for the future--an alternative path for a cybernation, where the possibility of less work for a better standard of living is possible.

About the Author

Stanley Aronowitz is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Cultural Studies at the City University of New York. He is the co-editor of Technoscience andCyberculture (Routledge, 1995), and author of DeadArtists, Live Theories and Other Cultural Problems (Routledge, 1993) and The Politics of Identity (Routledge, 1991), among many other books. JonathanCutler is a graduate student at CUNY and a member of the Cultural Studies Center Collective.