Post-work: Wages of Cybernation

Description

The computer and the age of digital technology came with the promise of quality of life improvements for all; but, unfortunately, people seem to be working more for less. In Post-Work Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the future of work. The introduction provides the framework for a radical reappraisal of work and suggests an alternative organization of labor. 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. Contributors include: Stanley Aronowitz, Lynn Chancer, Jonathan Cutler, William DiFazio, Dawn Esposito, Joan Greenbaum, Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt, Michael Lewis, Lois Weiner, Ellen Willis, and Margaret Yard.

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 and Cyberculture (Routledge, 1995), and author of Dead Artists, Live Theories and Other Cultural Problems (Routledge, 1993) and The Politics of Identity (Routledge, 1991), among many other books. Jonathan Cutler is a graduate student at CUNY and a member of the Cultural Studies Center Collective.

"Where labor and critical analysis of economic trends circulate, this interdisciplinary collection of essays ... should find interested readers. ... A demanding book but full of useful insights."-"Booklist, January 1998