Notes

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (University of Bath)
Frederick Harry Pitts (University of Bristol)

A World Beyond Work?

ISBN: 978-1-78769-146-9, eISBN: 978-1-78769-143-8

Publication date: 15 January 2021

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Dinerstein, A.C. and Pitts, F.H. (2021), "Notes", A World Beyond Work? (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 171-207. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-143-820201011

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Chapter 8: Hope and Prefigurative Translation: On Utopia

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This chapter draws upon Dinerstein, A. C. (2014). The dream of dignified work: On good and bad utopias. Development and Change, 45(5), 1037–1058; Dinerstein, A. C., & Pitts, F. H. (2018). From post-work to post-capitalism? Discussing the basic income and struggles for alternative forms of social reproduction. Journal of Labor and Society, 21(4), 471–491; Pitts, F. H., & Dinerstein, A. C. (2017). Pitts, F. H., & Dinerstein, A. C. (2017b). Postcapitalism, basic income and the end of work: A critique and alternative. Bath Papers in International Development and Wellbeing (No. 55); Pitts, F. H., & Dinerstein, A. C. (2017a). Corbynism's conveyor belt of ideas: Postcapitalism and the politics of social reproduction. Capital & Class, 41(3), 423–434; and Pitts, F. H., (2020), ‘Creative Labour, Metabolic Rift and the Crisis of Social Reproduction’. in: Mark Banks, Kate Oakley (eds) Cultural Industries and the Environmental Crisis: New Approaches for Policy. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Spencer, D. (2018). Fear and hope in an age of mass automation: Debating the future of work. New Technology, Work and Employment, 33, 1–12.

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Dinerstein, A. C. (2019). A critical theory of hope. Critical Affirmations beyond fear. In A. C. Dinerstein, G. Vela, E. González, & J. Holloway (Eds.),Open Marxism 4. Against a closing world (pp. 33–46). London; New York, NY: Pluto Press.

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Dinerstein, A. C., Pitts, F. H., & Taylor, G. (2016). A post-work economy of robots and Machines is a bad utopia for the left. The Conversation, May 23. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/a\post-work-economy-of-robots-and-machines-is-a-bad-utopia-for-the-left-59134

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Dinerstein, A. C. (2017b). Co-construction or prefiguration? Rethinking the “translation” of SSE practices into policy. In P. North & M. Scott Cato (Eds.), Towards just and sustainable economies: The social and solidarity economy North and South (pp. 57–71). Bristol: Policy Press.

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Dinerstein, A. C. (2014). The dream of dignified work: On good and bad Utopias. Development and Change, 45(5), 1037–1058.

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Dinerstein, A. C. (2015). The politics of autonomy in Latin America: The art of organising hope (p. 20). Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.

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Dinerstein, A. C. (2017b). Co-construction or prefiguration? Rethinking the “translation” of SSE practices into policy. In P. North & M. Scott Cato (Eds.), Towards just and sustainable economies: The social and solidarity economy North and South (pp. 57–71). Bristol: Policy Press.

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Dinerstein (2010), p. 364.

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