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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work! as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them. 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...
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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.
