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The Ideology of Work

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The Ideology of Work is an unflinching critique of theoretical humanism and how it has undermined our analysis of work.

In On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed – it was titled ‘the Ideology of Work’. Samuel J.R. Mercer takes this appendix as his starting point to think about what is at stake for both Marxism and sociology in analyzing work from an Althusserian perspective. Drawing on contemporary discourses about post-work, social reproduction and the Anthropocene, Mercer argues that theoretical humanism has become the dominant form of the ideology of work. The book shows that only a theoretical anti-humanism, grounded in Althusserian Marxism, can offer a viable path forward for the sociology of work and give us a better understanding of social relations under contemporary capitalism.


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Samuel J.R. Mercer is a lecturer in social policy at Liverpool Hope University. He is a member of the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism and has published in journals such as Economy and Society and Décalages.


Product details

Authors Samuel J.R. Mercer
Publisher Ingram Publishers Services
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 27.05.2025
 
EAN 9798888903582
ISBN 979-8-88890-358-2
Illustrations Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

Political Ideologies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Political ideologies and movements, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General

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