After work : a history of the home and the fight for free time / Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek.

By: Hester, Helen, 1983- [author.]Contributor(s): Srnicek, Nick [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First published by Verso 2023Description: 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781786633071 (hardback)Subject(s): Work-life balance | Work and family | Housekeeping | Household Work | Child CareLOC classification: HD4904.25 .H47 2023Subject: "This is a book primarily about housework and childcare, and its omission from most conversations about the future of work, and in particular in discussions about a 'post-work' future. It encompasses a history of the evolution of work within the home, of cultural standards around cleanliness, hygiene and parenting, and of single-family dwellings and their various short-lived utopian alternatives. It draws from both the actual history of work within the home and from the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries of the twentieth century to sketch out a path towards real freedom and free time for the future"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-270) and index (pages 271-282).

"This is a book primarily about housework and childcare, and its omission from most conversations about the future of work, and in particular in discussions about a 'post-work' future. It encompasses a history of the evolution of work within the home, of cultural standards around cleanliness, hygiene and parenting, and of single-family dwellings and their various short-lived utopian alternatives. It draws from both the actual history of work within the home and from the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries of the twentieth century to sketch out a path towards real freedom and free time for the future"-- Provided by publisher.