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The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

Weeks, Kathi

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Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book

Social MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0822351129
ISBN13: 9780822351122
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 9 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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