Labour in a Post-Work Society: How Should It Be Organized?
Peter Fleming
Paid employment within the formal economy is facing an uncertain future. Prognoses range from tragic joblessness condemning us to a life of poverty, precarity, and maddening isolation, to lives emancipated from the drudgery of labour. Critical examinations of this post-work condition focus almost solely on the non-work side of the equation (e.g. free time, leisure, etc.). There is little sustained consideration of the work that will remain, who will do it, or how it will be organized.
