The Fight for Free Time: Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek

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    Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek

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The Fight for Free Time: Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek

Thursday 17 August | 7pm | £5

In a post-work utopia, what happens to domestic labour? In their latest book, After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives. They chart the ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketch out a path towards real free time for allwhere everyone is at liberty to pursue their passions, or do nothing at all.

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About Helen Hester

Helen Hester is Professor of Gender, Technology and Work at the University of West London. Her research interests include technology, social reproduction, and the future of work, and she is a member of the international feminist working group Laboria Cuboniks. Her books include After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (with Nick Srnicek), Beyond Explicit: Pornography and the Displacement of Sex and Xenofeminism.

About Nick Srnicek

Nick Srnicek is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. He is the author of After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time (with Helen Hester), Platform Capitalism, and Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (with Alex Williams).