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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 The Long Downturn -- The End of the Postwar Exception -- The Dot-com Boom and Bust -- The Crisis of 2008 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Platform Capitalism -- Advertising Platforms -- Cloud Platforms -- Industrial Platforms -- Product Platforms -- Lean Platforms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Great Platform Wars -- Tendencies -- Challenges -- Futures -- Notes -- References -- End User License Agreement.

The platform business model is predicated upon a voracious appetite for data that can only be sated by disregard for privacy (and often workers' rights), and constant outward expansion. As they become ever more central to the global economy, Nick Srnicek argues that it's incumbent on us to understand how they function.

"This is a book primarily about housework and childcare, and its omission from most conversations about the future of work, and in particular in discussions about a 'post-work' future. It encompasses a history of the evolution of work within the home, of cultural standards around cleanliness, hygiene and parenting, and of single-family dwellings and their various short-lived utopian alternatives. It draws from both the actual history of work within the home and from the abandoned ideas of anti-housework visionaries of the twentieth century to sketch out a path towards real freedom and free time for the future"--

Full employment is a tenet of classic social democracy – but what if that just isn't applicable anymore? Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams survey the state of the British labour market and ask how a modern Labour party might reframe the issue of work so that it is sustainable and sustaining in the face of technological change.

This major new manifesto offers a "clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society" and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the twenty-first century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics

La gauche devrait se mobiliser autour d'un consensus sur le post-travail. Cela lui permettrait de viser non seulement des gains appréciables – tels que la réduction de la corvée et de la pauvreté – mais aussi la construction, chemin faisant, d'une puissance politique. Cela implique au moins trois revendications : l'automation aussi complète que possible, une réduction du temps de travail sans réduction des salaires et l'instauration d'un revenu de base universel.

L'avenir a besoin d'être construit. Il a été démoli par le capitalisme néolibéral pour être réduit à une promesse à prix réduit d'inégalités croissantes, de conflits et de chaos. L'effondrement de l'idée d'avenir est symptomatique du statut historique régressif de notre époque, bien davantage que d'une maturité sceptique, comme les cyniques essaient de nous le faire croire de tous les bords du champ politique. Il faut casser la coquille de l'avenir une fois encore, pour libérer nos horizons en les ouvrant vers les possibilités universelles du Dehors.