The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries; Kathi Weeks; 2011
The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries; Kathi Weeks; 2011

The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries

av Kathi Weeks

  • Utgiven: 2011
  • ISBN: 9780822351122
  • Sidor: 304 st
  • Förlag: Duke University Press
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska

Om boken

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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2011 släpptes boken The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries skriven av Kathi Weeks. Den är skriven på engelska och består av 304 sidor. Förlaget bakom boken är Duke University Press.

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Weeks, K. (2011). The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Duke University Press.

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Weeks K. The problem with work : feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries. Duke University Press; 2011.