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  • Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
  • By: Kathi Weeks
  • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
  • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)
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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. 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. 
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Disagree With Almost All of this, But…

It’s well written, well structured and well thought out. Definitely worth a read for the ideas explored - and will certainly help people form their own views in an honest and informed way. I think it’s honestly written. And that’s the best we can hope for from books like this. :)

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