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The Problem with Work
Kathi Weeks
其他書名
Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
出版Duke University Press, 2011-09-09
主題Business & Economics / Labor / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Workplace CulturePolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismPolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / Labor & Industrial RelationsScience / Life Sciences / BotanySocial Science / Feminism & Feminist TheorySocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN97808223511220822351129
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3uYJoGw83YAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.