ISBN:
9780822394723
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (287 Seiten)
Series Statement:
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
DDC:
331.2
Keywords:
Arbeit
;
Arbeitsbedingungen
;
Arbeitswelt
;
Familie
;
Beruf
;
Feminismus
;
Sozialismus
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
DOI:
10.1515/9780822394723
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822394723?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822394723
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