{"product_id":"the-problem-with-work-kathi-weeks-9780822351122","title":"The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries","description":"In \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathi Weeks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822351129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822351122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 5.91w x 0.72d","brand":"Kathi Weeks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050661638399,"sku":"9780822351122","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed47ae75-e331-424e-a13e-4cee035d4f7e.jpg?v=1685008510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-problem-with-work-kathi-weeks-9780822351122","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}