The Problem with Work

Weeks, Kathi

doi:10.1215/9780822394723

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“…If this line of argument were accepted, it would undermine those authors who, in a conventional sense, celebrate waged labour, and would also justify the provision of a social wage or some form of guaranteed income (see Gorz, 2010;Weeks, 2011). The growth of insecurity and precariousness of waged labour could lead to increased individualisation.…”

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Beyond NEET: Precariousness, Ideology and Social Justice – the 99%

Avis

2014

Power and Education

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The paper addresses NEET as an ideological and discursive formation, lodging the discussion within its socio-economic context -one of increasing insecurity and precariousness. It argues that frequently quasi-political and ideological constructions of NEET can readily fold over into and articulate with discourses of the underclass, the broken society as well as, paradoxically, that of social recession. Consequently, such arguments divert attention from processes of 'othering', the secular changes facing society as well as the spectre of a return to a form of nineteenth century liberalism. Although the argument is located within the English context it has a relevance to other western societies in which we can discern similar tendencies. '. (Pearson, 1975: pxi) Both those inside the policy discourse and those whose professional identities are established through antagonism towards the discourse benefit from the uncertainties and tragedies of reform. Critical researchers, apparently ensconced in the moral

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Section: Towards a Conclusionmentioning

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Beyond NEET: Precariousness, Ideology and Social Justice – the 99%

Avis

2014

Power and Education

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“…While this is no doubt possible, and it was women in the GAI experiments from the 1970s who disproportionately reduced work hours, the effect would likely be muted in a world with a narrower gender wage gap, shifted norms, and a wider range of employment opportunities for women. Apart from the danger of an entrenched gendered division of unpaid care work, basic income is widely viewed as a way to recognize as socially valuable those activities that typically go unremunerated (Weeks 2011). In fact, more than any other potentially socially valuable nonemployment activity, it is care work that has received special attention in the attempts to construct alternative national accounting schemes that take seriously the use-values produced through the unpaid provision of domestic services (Bridgman et al 2012;Folbre and Wagman 1993).…”

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Life after Work: The Impact of Basic Income on Nonemployment Activities

Calnitsky¹,

Latner²,

Forget³

2019

Soc. sci. hist.

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Basic income experiments tend to show some decline in work hours, but less is known about how that nonwork time is spent. This article uses data from a randomized controlled trial of a guaranteed annual income to examine the activities of recipients who left the labor force for some amount of time. In particular, we analyze the reasons respondents gave for not working. We find that the intervention led to growth in care work activities and education, especially among women, moderate growth in self-employment, relatively strong growth in the portion of men and women simply reporting that they did not want to work, and the strongest growth in nonemployment connected to dissatisfaction with work/job conditions. Finally, the sole nonemployment category that declines as a result of the experiment is health-related reasons for not working.

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“…In many cases, this latter line of argument has been dismissed as cyberutopian or cyberlibertarian (Lessig : 4–5), because it suggests that virtual worlds are inherently freer than embodied worlds. But for Indian programmers, the claim is not so much libertarian as utopian in the sense of responding to an existing set of constraints with a set of better, but still imperfect, possibilities (Weeks : 210–13). It is a call that takes the premise of a borderless world promised by information technologies and tries to make it real and concrete in practice.…”

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Proprietary freedoms in an IT office: how Indian IT workers negotiate code and cultural branding

Amrute

2014

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

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This article explores how Indian IT workers who have been hired on short‐term contracts in Germany negotiate their racialisation as fast, cheap and disposable. They elaborate modes of freedom that take advantage of the pace of work and its varied temporalities while simultaneously developing a critique of corporate coding as limiting mobility. Their critique upends the usual way that freedom and ownership are conceived, since they try to own the code they write rather than making claims for ‘open’ or ‘free’ software. Indian IT workers’ strategies demonstrate the need for a reconsideration of the meaning of freedom within corporate coding economies and neoliberal knowledge regimes more generally. This article develops a concept of ‘proprietary freedom’ to do so.

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The Problem with Work

Cited by 997 publications

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Beyond NEET: Precariousness, Ideology and Social Justice – the 99%

Beyond NEET: Precariousness, Ideology and Social Justice – the 99%

Life after Work: The Impact of Basic Income on Nonemployment Activities

Proprietary freedoms in an IT office: how Indian IT workers negotiate code and cultural branding

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