Automate Laundry not Poetry! w/ Helen Hester

Macrodose

On this week's Macrodose, Helen Hester invites you to consider what the world will look like as work becomes increasingly automated. What will this mean for people whose job involves looking after people? What about the domestic caring work that is often unpaid and tends to fall most heavily on women and racialised minorities? How do we envision a world after work?

Helen Hester is a professor of gender, technology and cultural politics at the University of West London. She is also the author of several books including Xenofeminism tinyurl.com/3bke93ye and, most recently, After Work: A history of the home and the fight for free time - co-written with Nick Srnicek tinyurl.com/4de7krcw

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