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After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time by Helen Hester, Nick Srnicek

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informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

The history of care work is really well researched and presented in this book. But the book falls short in terms of providing a vision for the future. Most of the ideas presented won't work as long as we live in nation-states with a growth-based economic system, no matter if that is capitalism or socialism or whatever else. Case in point, I spent my early childhood under state socialism with free childcare available to anyone, and my mother was still expected to do it all and denied the opportunity to earn a higher degree several times because her husband had one. The key here being as long as we live under political and economic systems that don't exist for the benefit of the individual — all individuals — but merely to ensure the system continues to exist, the rest is window dressing. So, unsurprisingly, the book's vision for the future didn't offer many new insights. Yes, we know how things might work; the real question is why they don't.
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