{"product_id":"the-problem-with-work-1","title":"The Problem with Work","description":"\u003cdiv\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\/div\u003e","brand":"Kathi Weeks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616015868284,"sku":"9780822350965","price":101.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780822350965_88b9613a-9543-47b4-a91a-9ae0789075fa.jpg?v=1725885864","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-problem-with-work-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}