The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries - Kathi Weeks
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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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This post has 11 comments with rating of 4/5
July 3rd, 2021
Well, at least she doesn’t have to work. I wonder who she expects to do creative work at the sewer plant.
July 3rd, 2021
Antiwork Politics? How does that, er, work? Sounds rationally sustainable - sign me up!
July 3rd, 2021
With so many unemployment around the world this discussion is a priority! Thnks!
July 3rd, 2021
Work isn’t a bad thing. Working a 50+ hour week and still not being able to afford both rent as well as the medicines that keep you alive is a dystopian nightmare that too many people are living. If work paid what our time was worth, discussions like these wouldn’t need to exist.
There’s a reason why so many people look into streams of passive revenue or speculate on stocks and shares. Everyone wants the money to thrive without working themselves into an early grave.
July 3rd, 2021
Always the No-True-Scotsman Utopianism with either Marxism or Capitalism. It’s always ‘that wasn’t real Communism’ or ‘that’s just crony capitalism.’ Clearly, there are some serious issues, especially when it comes to these Utopian narratives both set up, Marxism using Easternized, ‘Enlightened’ secularism combined with Plato’s politics to design an ultimately dualistic post-religious society based on an aristocracy imposing ‘equity’ eugenics (which is why, every rip, it results in Gulags, Genocides, which it’s followers cannot seem to digest). The Pilgrim Society, tied into the Fabian Society, are still the most powerful (Robber Baron) dynastic families alive, and they are the top movers and shakers in the present infrastructural changes. They also- like Kissinger’s protege Klaus Schwab- were heavily invested in Nazi Germany. ‘Post Work Future’ and ‘Feminine Power’ are just bait for a future that isn’t coming- where women don’t have natural urges to have children or take care of them, and we all live on some Rastafarian-Kibbutz. That Kibbutz always ends up being Kolyma (read Shalamov, if you want to know about your ‘feminine post-work future’).
https://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/the-fabians-the-round-table-and-the-rhodes-scholars/
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_pilgrimsociety01.htm
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/schwab-family-values/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fzBth1YJfI
July 3rd, 2021
Once the state kills our current jobs and capitalism, the state will have a job for us all. No need to worry; we’re in safe hands.
July 4th, 2021
Been meaning to read this for years, so thanks! Kathi Weeks is a smart feminist political theorist, and I have been intrigued by the whole ‘refusal of work’ thing ever since I first encountered it while reading Toni Negri (before Empire) and other heterodox Marxists from what was called “Laboratory Italy” for its multitude of original radical political currents. (And the failure of some of those 1970s experiments deserve close attention from some black bloc anarchists today. Negri, along w Felix Guattari, provide some of the harshest criticism of left terrorism and symbolic violence. A more fruitful approach to radical change might very well be a campaign to expose the bullsh*t of the work ethic, and the absurdity of pretending that everyone can and should work 40+ hrs/wk for income and the pretense of economic security.)
July 4th, 2021
Bunk
July 4th, 2021
She needs to be put out of work.
July 4th, 2021
Looks like an interesting work. Thanks for the upload. As @skay alludes too, this is a political current that goes back a long way, perhaps as far as Charles Fourier in the early 19th century.
Anti-work, feminist politics, peer review, big words–sorry if this is triggering to the contemporary partisans of the Know Nothing Party who seem to haunt this website.
July 4th, 2021
Thanks a lot as always,daenigma.
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