Introduction: Why Should Political Theorists Care About Work?

Turner, Ben; Milders, Lucas Van

doi:10.1353/lit.2021.0029

College Literature

2021

DOI: 10.1353/lit.2021.0029

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Introduction: Why Should Political Theorists Care About Work?

Ben Turner¹,

Lucas Van Milders²

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“…My main claim is that this account of demand-making can provide a portable model for evaluating demands for what André Gorz (1967) called "non-reformist reforms," which are made by several contemporary movements (Akbar 2020). But I also want to show that these ideas about demand-making and the problem of 2 For a survey of political theories of work, see Turner and Van Milders (2021). 3 For a disaggregation of "housework," see Quick (2008).…”

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Feminist Demands and the Problem of Housework

Forrester

2022

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This article develops an account of demand-making and provides a novel framework for evaluating the demands and strategies of social movements. It explores three features of demands, arguing that they disclose social conditions, create constituencies, and set the horizons of the world that social movements seek to build. It does so by considering two feminist demands: the demand for wages for housework and for the socialization of housework. By revisiting revolutionary feminism in the 1970s, it contrasts two strategic perspectives articulated in debates about housework: what Selma James called the “perspective of winning” and what I call the “perspective of investment,” a strategy for change that sees short-term reforms as investments in long-term transformations. In light of this, I endorse the demand to socialize housework as apt for the contemporary care economy and show how my account of demand-making contributes to the political theory of social movements by clarifying movement demands for “non-reformist reforms,” such as defund the police.

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Introduction: Why Should Political Theorists Care About Work?

Abstract: The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.

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