The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries - Couverture rigide

Weeks, Kathi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822350963 ISBN 13 : 9780822350965

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kathi Weeks is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Feminist Subjects and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822350963
• ISBN 13: 9780822350965
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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