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After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

By (author) Helen Hester, By (author) Nick Srnicek

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Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you’re confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete – cooking, cleaning, looking after the kids, and so on. In this groundbreaking book, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in our homes has come to take up an ever-increasing portion of our lives – how the vacuum of free time has been taken up by vacuuming. Charting the trajectory of our domestic spaces over the past century, Hester and Srnicek consider new possibilities for the future, uncovering the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries and sketching out a path towards real free time for all.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 3 to 6 weeks
Publisher | Verso Books
Published date | 1 Sep 2026
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 272
Dimensions | 210 x 140 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 350g
ISBN | 978-1-7866-3308-8
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BISAC | political science / labor & industrial relations

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