Ok, mandatory book promotion thread since it's out today with @VersoBooks. This book has been a long-time coming, initially proposed in 2015 or so, but then Helen and I had three kids and the book took a backseat

Submitted the final version of my next book on AI, Big Tech, and the geopolitical struggles over them. Now hopefully nothing important happens on those topics before it comes out. Pre-order here:

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First up, we're in conversation with Josh Kline at the Whitney Museum in NYC on Friday 11 August

…and the Financial Times

…The Washington Post…

Hopefully people enjoy the book! Reviews are out so far in The Guardian…

In response, in the final part of the book, we try to set out some guiding principles for alternative approaches to social reproduction - ways we could reorganise this work to enable more freedom and more care for all.

We try to show how and why despite various attempts to reduce the work done in the home, this work has remained largely constant over the past century - one study, e.g., finding that the work has decreased by less than 2 hours per individual.

So in the book we go through a history of the home and the various factors that have shaped the ways this work has been done - chapters on technology, standards, living spaces, and families.

This is especially important because, as we try to show, not only does reproductive work take up the vast majority of unpaid labour time, it increasingly takes up around 30% of waged work as well.

Our book is an attempt to bring these things together - to ask, how can the post-work project be meaningfully applied to the work of social reproduction?.

On the other hand, many have rightly pointed out that the project of reducing work when it comes to social reproduction can have dire consequences - does this project mean less caring or more robots?.

We started though from a basic problem: the political project of reducing work has picked up steam in the past 10 years but has remained largely focused on masculinised and waged work.

UK workers already provide around 8 billion unpaid hours of this work every year

This is very good - an inevitable symptom of the attention economy.

RT @HelenHester: Here she is!

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