Acknowledgements
This book is based on my doctoral studies and my thesis entitled Humanism and the Ideology of Work. I completed this thesis under the supervision of Joe Rigby, Katherine Harrison, Cassie Ogden and Peter Cox. I thank them for their ongoing wisdom and guidance and for encouraging me with this research from the beginning.
I would like to give special thanks also to Dhruv Jain, who organised and encouraged the publication of this manuscript. Dhruv has been a mentor and has invited me into a circle of intellectuals, many listed below, of which I had no business being a part. I thank him for this and for his continued friendship.
There are a number of people without whose input, across the completion of the initial PhD research and in the completion of this book, has been essential. Claudio Aguayo, Alya Ansari, Taylor Backman, Étienne Balibar, Bori, Fabio Bruschi, Roberto Catello, Emma Dowling, G.M. Goshgarian, Lea Idinopulos, David Isserman, Rafael Khachaturian, Thomas A. Laughlin, Jonathon Louth, David Maruzzella, Thomas McGlone Jr., Andrew McWhinney, Dave Mesing, Warren Montag, Lara Rettondini, Charles Umney, ben wallis and Imogen Woods.
Chapter 3 of this book is adapted from an article published in Décalages, titled ‘ “Social Labor” and the Marxist Critique of Work’. Chapter 4 of this book is adapted from an article published in Economy and Society, titled ‘Humanism and the Sociology of Post-Work’. I am grateful to the editorial boards of these two journals for their permission to re-print this material here.
I would like to thank Danny Hayward, Tegan Jaye-Luzhin, Sebastian Budgen and the anonymous reviewers of this manuscript with Historical Materialism for publishing this manuscript.