Helen Hester

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 ground-breaking book, After Work, Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek lay out how unpaid work in...

What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and not hellish? How can we take the pleasures of work with us and eliminate the pains? The answer: we need a post-work vision. Questioning the received wisdom that work is...

The future of work is not coding but caring – high-touch rather than high-tech. The fastest growing jobs revolve around cooking, cleaning, and caring. Around half of all work is caring work done unpaid in people's families and homes. However, when we think about work, we still tend to focus on offices and factories rather than hospitals and homes –...