'Fascinating and absorbing ... a corrective to the widespread view that anyone can find fulfilment through their job, if they just work hard enough'
Grace Blakeley, editor of 'Futures of Socialism' (Verso, 2020)

'Amelia Horgan is, in the words of organizer Fred Ross, a social arsonist. Her book will set your world on fire. Somewhere in our bones, we know that work is getting worse. But with this book, Horgan has provided the match and the kindling we need to burn the whole thing down'
Sarah Jaffe, author of 'Work Won't Love You Back' (Hurst, 2021)

'An excellent and important book. It combines sharp political insight with nuanced analyses ... an invaluable resource to those with an interest not just in better understanding labour and exploitation, but also in the possibilities of freedom and collective joy'
Helen Hester, Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London and author of 'Xenofeminism' (Polity, 2018)

'I can't think of a more succinct and elegant expression of what work does to us and, in turn, why it's never been more urgent to shape our work'
Will Stronge, Director of Research at Autonomy and author of 'Post-Work' (Bloomsbury, 2022)

'Vivid ... her humour and anger is quite a tonic'
Owen Hatherley, Tribune

'A sharp polemic ... Horgan's insights will appeal to anyone who has ever done a job they hated'
Hettie O'Brien, 'Guardian'

'A succinct outline of how work has become our entire existence ... Lost in Work's rally against the working world resonates to our very cores'
Bille Walker, 'Aurelia magazine'

'A concise book that convincingly challenges assumptions about working many would have considered unshakeable'
'STAT magazine'

'Timely'
'Evening Standard'

'This book incisively dissects what counts for received wisdom about work ... Horgan has applied Marxist theory to everyday life with alacrity. In so doing, she has armed her readers to fight back'
Conrad Landin, 'Camden New Journal'

'An anti-capitalist manifesto ... Lost in Work, at its most powerful, shakes up our sense of what is politically imaginable'
'Boston Review'

'A perceptive philosophical account of what work is, what it does to us, and how we can reorganise it'
Katrina Forrester, 'New Statesman'

'A systematic takedown of the untenable conditions of what it is like to work now'
'Art Monthly'

'A call to action ... Horgan has applied Marxist theory to everyday life with alacrity. In so doing, she has armed her readers to fight back'
'Islington Tribune'