The Case for Work
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 November 2024
- ISBN 9780192887146
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 241x165x30 mm
- Weight 790 g
- Language English 660
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Short description:
The Case for Work shows that our paltry situation is critical precisely because work matters and that it is a mistake to advocate a society beyond work on the basis of its current organisation.
MoreLong description:
The modern work ethic is in crisis. The numerous harms and injustices harboured by current labour markets and work organisations, combined with the threat of mass unemployment entailed in rampant automation, have inspired a strong ?post-work? movement in the theoretical humanities and social sciences, echoed by many intellectuals, journalists, artists and progressives. Against this widespread temptation to declare work obsolete, The Case for Work shows that our paltry situation is critical precisely because work matters. It is a mistake to advocate a society beyond work on the basis of its current organisation.
In the first part of the book, the arguments feeding into the ?case against work? are located in the long history of social and political thought. This comprehensive, genealogical inquiry highlights many conceptual and methodological issues that continue to plague contemporary accounts. The second part of the book makes the ?case for work? in a positive way through a dialectical argument. The very feature of work that its critics emphasise, namely that it is a realm of necessity, is precisely what makes it the conduit for freedom and flourishing, provided each member of society is in a position to face this necessity in conditions that are equal and just.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART I: THE CASE AGAINST WORK
A modern value
The work ethic
Abstract labour
Work as discipline
Aristotelian objections
Nihilistic work
The imminent obsolescence of work
The social and political irrelevance of work
PART II: THE CASE FOR WORK
Feminism's ambivalent attitude to work
The work of social reproduction
The long history of work
The social centrality of work
Facing necessity
Organizing necessity
Conclusion: Transcending necessity
Mechanical Design: Theory and Methodology
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