Review of A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia, by Ana C. Dinerstein and Frederick H. Pitts. United Kingdom: Emerald, 2021.

Mercer, Samuel J.R. (2022) Review of A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia, by Ana C. Dinerstein and Frederick H. Pitts. United Kingdom: Emerald, 2021. Rethinking Marxism, 34 (2). pp. 276-281. ISSN 0893-5696

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Abstract

A World Beyond Work? collects together a series of essays in one volume, which critically appraise the new wave of post-work and postcapitalist thought that has emerged since the middle of the of the last decade. Ana C. Dinerstein and Frederick H. Pitts (2021) argue that the ‘Post-Work Prospectus’ focuses too heavily on the abolition of concrete labour, leaving its abstract social forms – and with them the social relations of capitalist society – unthought and unmoved. Though this fetishism of concrete labour forms the body of their critique, Dinerstein and Pitts (2021) reproduce this fetishism in their own political recommendations, offering a Marxist-humanist thesis of counter-alienation located in their own celebration of the ‘social’ characteristics of concrete labour.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Rethinking Marxism. The final version is available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08935696.2022.2051372
Keywords:	Postcapitalism; work; value-form; social reproduction; open Marxism
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Samuel Mercer
Date Deposited:	16 Jun 2021 10:20
Last Modified:	14 Dec 2022 15:57
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3314

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