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In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labour, 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 non-paid work as a valued form of labour, 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, an ethical obligation, and a means of defining ourselves and others as social and political subjects. Taking up Marxist and feminist critiques, Weeks proposes a post-work 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Problem with Work
• Author: Weeks
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780822351122
• ISBN: 0822351129
• ID: 01209390
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 406 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 236 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. September 2011

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