After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time is a thought-provoking book. Helen Hester and Rick Srnicek are British academics: she is a scholar of technofeminism and sexuality studies at the London School of Film, Media and Design, and he a senior lecturer in digital economy at King's College London. Both are proponents of ideas about postcapitalism, postwork, and postscarcity economies and societies. They live together, with their three young children, and are the sorts of people who put their minds to thinking about their daily lives with respect to the theoretical questions they grapple with in their work. For them, the personal is both political and historical. They speak to us not only from academic perches but also from “deep in the woods of nappy changing and sleepless nights—when the oldest is sick, the youngest won't settle, and the middle child is having a...
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