The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

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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. Whilst 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 type of labor, even they’ve tended to accept work as a naturalized or inevitable activity. Weeks argues that in taking work as a given, Now we have “depoliticized” it, or got rid of it from the realm of political critique. Employment is now in large part privatized, and work-based activism in the USA has atrophied. Now we have accepted waged work as the primary mechanism for source of revenue 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 relatively than relentlessly bound to the employment relation. Work, she contends, is a legitimate, even a very powerful, subject for political theory.
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