Unproductive Labor

The Need for a Shorter Working Week with Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge


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This episode, Pete interviews Will Strong and Kyle Lewis about their book Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week. They talk about work time and its connection to feminist and environmental discourses, the pitfalls of talking about work as abstraction, and the benefits of shorter working week for everyone. 

Kyle is a PhD candidate at the University of West London and a working-time consultant for the think tank Autonomy. Will Stronge is the Director of Research at Autonomy and a post doctoral researcher in Politics and Philosophy at the University of Brighton. 

You can find Will on Twitter @w_stronge and Kyle can be found @autonomous_coys. 

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Credits

Producer: Daniel Fermín

Music: Composed and performed by Samuel Haines. 

Artwork: Daniel Fermín

What We Talked About

Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week by Will Stronge and Kyle Lewis

The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks

Autonomy

A Four-Day Week For Schools” by Jack Kellam, Will Stronge, and Joe Ryle.

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Unproductive LaborBy Pete Sinnott