Kathi Weeks: The Problem with Work

Cover: 9780822351122 | The Problem with Work | Kathi Weeks | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. The Problem with Work 1

1. Mapping the Work Ethic 37

2. Marxism, Productivism, and the Refusal of Work 79

3. Working Demands: From Wages for Housework to Basic Income 113

4. "Hours for What We Will": Work, Family, and the Demand for Shorter Hours 151

5. The Future Is Now: Utopian Demands and the Temporalities of Hope 175

Epilogue. A Life beyond Work 227

Notes 235

References 255

Index 275

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822351122
ISBN-10:	0822351129
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Weeks, Kathi
Hersteller:	MNG University Presses Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 151 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Kathi Weeks
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.09.2011
Gewicht:	0,378 kg