{"product_id":"9780822351122","title":"The Problem with Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52273081123090,"sku":"9780822351122","price":57.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9780822351122.jpg?v=1778796361","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9780822351122","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}