Finally, we draw on eco-feminist analyses of capitalism to argue that by challenging labour productivity growth we can also challenge wider forces of oppression.
This would free us to do jobs that contribute to the social good, rather than generate exchange value, and empower us to fight for good work. By breaking the link between work and consumption at the level of the individual, we can remove some of the coercion in work. We argue that biophysical and social dynamics mean that in a post-growth economy we are likely to have to be less productive and work more. These competing notions provide inspiration for a post-growth vision of work. Cokaygne is a land of excessive consumption without work, while in News from Nowhere work is the route to the good life. In Week 4 (27th April - 3rd May) we saw 310 entries - a new high There were also new records set in the number. We explore depictions of work in Cokaygne, a utopian tradition dating back to the 12th century, and William Morris's 19th century News from Nowhere. But thats not a reason to be sad, oh no, lets instead rejoice at the more than 280 new mods that have been uploaded by their creators during the Modathon - thats quite the spike in mod uploads.
To escape these assumptions we turn to utopian fiction. Modern imaginings of the future are constrained by the assumptions of growth-based capitalism.
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