The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries By: Kathi Weeks [Audiobook]

Author: Kathi Weeks
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

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. 

General Information
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 Title:                  The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
 Author:                 Kathi Weeks
 Read By:                Courtney Patterson
 Copyright:              2021
 Audiobook Copyright:    2021
 Genre:                  Audiobook
 Publisher:              Audible Studios
 Duration:               10 hours, 40 minutes, 24 seconds
 Chapters:               57
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Book Description
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In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. 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.

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