{"product_id":"the-problem-with-work-feminism-marxism-antiwork-politics-and-postwork-imaginaries-paperback","title":"The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathi Weeks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Problem with Work\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathi Weeks is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eConstituting Feminist Subjects \u003c\/i\u003eand a co-editor of\u003ci\u003e The Jameson Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.21 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130229166215,"sku":"9780822351122","price":46.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/06df874e1d5485031a5b9c245d2cd4ae.webp?v=1732609391","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-problem-with-work-feminism-marxism-antiwork-politics-and-postwork-imaginaries-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}