The Problem With Work - 9780822350965
Un libro in lingua di Kathi Weeks edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2011
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Problem With Work
- Sottotitolo: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Kathi Weeks
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 09 Settembre '11
- Genere: POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Work Social aspects Work-life balance Feminism
- Pagine: 287
- EAN-13: 9780822350965