Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism
By (Author) Ian G. R. Shaw
By (author) Marv Waterstone
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
10th March 2020
United States
General
Non Fiction
Economic theory and philosophy
Political science and theory
Paperback
142
Width 127mm, Height 178mm, Spine 6mm
Drawing up alternate ways to make a living beyond capitalism
To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western democracy, unfettered capitalism has led to a shrinking economic system that squeezes out billions of peoplecreating a planet of surplus populations. Wageless Life is a manifesto for building a future beyond the toxic failures of late-stage capitalism. Daring to imagine new social relations, new modes of economic existence, and new collective worlds, the authors provide skills and tools for perceivingand living in a post-capitalist future.
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"This lucid and penetrating study not only lays bare the critical features of our decaying social order and its historical roots, but also provides valuable guidelines for the task of seizing our autonomy back in a world of justice, freedom, communal life, and human dignity. Perceptive and enlightening, and a ray of light in dark times."Noam Chomsky
Ian G. R. Shaw is lecturer in human geography at University of Glasgow. He is author of Predator Empire (Minnesota, 2016).
Marv Waterstone is professor emeritus in the School of Geography and Development at University of Arizona.