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The episode discusses Kathi Weeks' critique of work as a dominant ethos in capitalist society.

In this episode we discuss Kathi Weeks’ 2011 book The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries. The text brings together social reproduction feminism and autonomist Marxism to develop a critique of work as the organizing principle of life and dominant ethos in capitalist society. Weeks argues that the valorization of work is taken for granted even in certain strains of socialist criticism. We agree that work sucks, but we admit we have a hard time devel...

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Hosts: Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, William Paris

Topics covered

• work
• feminism
• Marxism
• antiwork politics
• capitalism
• social reproduction

Keywords

• work
• feminism
• Marxism
• antiwork
• capitalism
• social reproduction
• critique

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries

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