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Does work give our lives purpose, meaning and status? Or is it a tedious necessity that will soon be abolished by automation, leaving humans free to enjoy a life of leisure and basic income?
In this erudite and highly readable book, Jon Cruddas MP argues that it is imperative that the Left rejects the siren call of technological determinism and roots it politics firmly in the workplace. Drawing from his experience of his own Dagenham and Rainham constituency, he examines the history of Marxist and social democratic thinking about work in order to critique the fatalism of both Blairism and radical left techno-utopianism, which, he contends, have more in common than either would like to admit. He argues that, especially in the context of COVID-19, socialists must embrace an ethical socialist politics based on the dignity and agency of the labour interest.
This timely book is a brilliant intervention in the highly contentious debate on the future of work, as well as an ambitious account of how the left must rediscover its animating purpose or risk irrelevance.
Contents
Preface Acknowledgements
About the Author
Prologue
Notes
1 Work and the Modern World
Politics and Belonging
Degradation
Authoritarian Populism
The Challenge
The End of Work?
Pragmatic Confusion
Then Worked Stopped
The Way Ahead
Notes
Part I The Economics of Labour
2 The Labour Problem
Dagenham and the 17
Post-war Pluralism
Classical Economics and the Labour Problem
Disease
The Cure
The Corporate State
Rethinking Made in Dagenham
1969
Notes
3 Miracle Cures
Stepping Stones
Neo-Classical Theory
Shock Doctrine
Unity
Unity in Dagenham
Miracle Cure?
Notes
4 New Labour
Neo-Classical Labour?
Donovan's Early Influence
Treasury Utility
Rights, Equality and Europe
Blair
Knowledge Work
Closing-Down Sale - Everything Must Go
Blair and Brown United
Ignored Not Wiped Out
The 'Labour Problem't
Notes
5 A Return to Marx
Modern Utopia
Value Theory
Work and Marxism
Reading Marx
Notes Part II The Ethics of Labour
6 Dignity
Dagenham Labour
The Public Philosopher Comes to Town
What Is Work?
Early Dagenham Capitalism
Dignity
Talking Heads
Notes
7 What Do We Think and What's Going to Happen?
'Technology Is not Destiny'
Notes
8 Justice and the Left
Three Speeches
Politics, Morality and Justice
Rethinking Socialism
A Different Marxism
A Different Labour
Rethinking the Oxford School
Footnote: Tony Blair - The Road Not Taken
Notes
9 Human Labour and Radical Hope
A Culture Dies
Radical Hope
The Political Interregnum
The Right
Universal Basic Income
The New Work Covenant
The Renewal of Vocation
Notes
Epilogue
Notes
Index
