The Problem with Work : Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries Paperback / softback
by Kathi Weeks
Part of the A John Hope Franklin Center Book series
Paperback / softback
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In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good.
While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition of unpaid work as a valued form of labor, even they have tended to accept work as a naturalized or inevitable activity.
Weeks argues that in taking work as a given, we have “depoliticized” it, or removed it from the realm of political critique.
Employment is now largely privatized, and work-based activism in the United States has atrophied.
We have accepted waged work as the primary mechanism for income distribution, as an ethical obligation, and as a means of defining ourselves and others as social and political subjects.
Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a postwork society that would allow people to be productive and creative rather than relentlessly bound to the employment relation.
Work, she contends, is a legitimate, even crucial, subject for political theory.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:09/09/2011
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- ISBN:9780822351122
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:09/09/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822351122
