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A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time,” a meticulously researched and agilely argued plea for the reduction of domestic labor from feminist scholar Helen Hester and Marxist economist ...
Helen Hester spent the months after Hurricane Katrina sitting in front of a cage, reading the newspaper to a dog named Chaz. He'd been wandering the streets, and it wasn't safe for anyone to ...
Helen Hester spent the months after Hurricane Katrina sitting in front of a cage, reading the newspaper to a dog named Chaz. He’d been wandering the streets, and it wasn’t safe for anyone to ...
As Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek put it: “Beyond the personal domination exhibited by managers and bosses, wage labour is also unfree by virtue of this impersonal domination of capitalism’s ...
Helen Hester is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of West London. Her research interests include technology, social reproduction, and the future of work ...
On the screen: “If nature is unjust, change nature.” Their names are Diann Bauer and Helen Hester, both members of the collective Laboria Coboniks, their name an anagram of the French maths group who ...
(A Cuban-born revolutionary socialist, Lafargue married one of Karl Marx’s daughters, Laura, in 1868.) Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek offer a more contemporary contribution. In After Work: A History of ...