The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks

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The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.

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Kathi Weeks is Associate Professor of Womens Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Feminist Subjects and a co-editor of The Jameson Reader.

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Canonical title: The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
Original publication date: 2011
Blurbers: Negri, Antonio; Disch, Lisa; Grant, Judith

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

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