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A World to Win: All Work, No Play

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🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Grace is joined by Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith to discuss their book Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism. They discuss why we are working so hard, what kind of work is valued, and what a post-work future might look like.


A World to Win is a podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory, and action with guests from around the world. Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and to the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.



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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Whim. This week I'm joined by Marilah

0:16.8

Fanabaka and J.A. Smith to discuss their book, Work, Want Work, Labour and Desire at the

0:22.5

End of Capsulism, in which we discuss why we are working so hard, what kind of work

0:27.6

is valued and what a post work future might look like. As always, thank you so much to our

0:34.0

amazing patrons who make the show possible. If you want to support the show, please do make

0:38.8

sure that you sign up to become a patron at patreon.com slash a world to win pod. There's a link

0:44.7

in the description. If you want to support us in another way, then please consider sharing this

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episode on social media, tagging at a world to win pod on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

0:54.8

Now here's a quick word from our sponsors before this episode.

0:59.7

This episode of A Well To Whim is brought to you by Haymarket Books, which has a load of great

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1:23.4

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1:49.2

Hello and welcome to another episode of A Well To Whim. I am here with Marilah Fannebecker

1:55.5

and Jay A Smith to talk about their new book, Work, Want, Work, Labor and Desire at the end of

2:02.3

capitalism. How are you both doing today? Very well, Grace. Lovely, thanks. Great to be on the show.

2:08.1

It's great to have you here on the show to talk about your fascinating book, which I really

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