Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Horgan, Amelia

Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** "Horgan's suggestions will appeal to anyone who has ever done a job...
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Author: Amelia Horgan
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Language: English
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Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Horgan, Amelia

Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism

CHF 21.95

Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism

CHF 21.95
Author: Amelia Horgan
Format: Paperback
Language: English

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021***

"Horgan's suggestions will appeal to anyone who has ever done a job they hated..."--The Guardian

"Work hard, get paid". It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie - at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation.

Amelia Horgan poses three big questions here: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? While abolishing work altogether is not the answer, Lost in Work shows that when we are able to take control of our workplaces, we become less miserable, and can work towards the transformative goal of experimenting with 'work' as we know it. Chapters include:

*Work, capitalism and capitalist work
*Contesting 'work'
*The paradox of new work
*What does work to do us as individuals
*What does work to do society
*Phantoms and slackers: Resistance and work
*Time off: Resistance to work

For a new generation of workers dealing with Covid19, work from home, hybrid work, burnout, anxiety, and more, author Amelia Hogan offers a clear-eyed look at the work we do and suggests that in a new work in which work as we know it has changed dramatically, "we might think that something needs to change." Maybe change begins with reading this remarkably revelatory book, because Hogan articulates that gnawing feeling that we have at the office that something isn't right and that the systems of our civilization are designed to chain and subdue us.

Author: Amelia Horgan
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 06/20/2021
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.15w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780745340913

About the Author
Amelia Horgan is a writer, researcher and activist. She is currently writing a PhD on work in the feminist political imaginary at the University of Essex. She has written for various publications, including Tribune, the Guardian and VICE, and is involved in various campaigning initiatives, including London Young Labour.

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