TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weeks,Kathi
TI  - The problem with work : : feminism, marxism, antiwork politics, and postwork imaginaries 
SN  - 9780822351122
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Work-life balance
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Feminism
N2  - "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."--
ER  -