#8 NOVEMBER 2019 No“future of work” without respect for nature: ecofeminist visions of anti-extractivist re-existences from Latin America Lucía Delbene Lezama The current“future of work” discourse refers to the transformation of today`s economies through the“digital revolution”. Many of the rather optimistic capital and Eurocentric analyses promotes the idea of quick, technology-driven fixes for complex problems. However, such proposals lead to a deepening of the existing extractivist economic models and their negative consequences for women and workers rather than to significant transformation towards just human development socially, environmentally and gender equality. Ecofeminists in Latin America have been fighting extractivism for decades. Their critique and life experience, grounded in local alternatives, show a way to a different approach to human development and promote meaningful lives in a feminist future, based on respect for humans, nature and workers’ livelihoods. The extraction of natural resources, historically and consistently, has been ongoing in Latin America, leading to the depletion of these resources in their conventional form. To sustain the levels of growth desired by current development models, it is necessary to intensify extraction, explore new territories and extract natural resources that were once considered to be of poor quality. This is one of the reasons why extractive models have spread across and continue to spread in Latin America. According to Eduardo Gudynas(2013), a project can be considered extractive when there is a large volume or intensive extraction of natural resources, when 50% of what is extracted is exported, and when the exported product is mainly unprocessed(raw materials). The mining operations in Andean countries, the entrance of oil companies into the Amazon and the soybean, eucalyptus and pine tree single-crop farming practices are good 1