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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem with Work
THE WORK SOCIETY
GENDER AT WORK
WORK VALUES
WORK AND LABOR
WORK AND CLASS
FREEDOM AND EQUALITY
MARXIST FEMINISM REDUX
CHAPTER OVERVIEWS
Chapter 1: Mapping the Work Ethic
THE PRIMITIVE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITIES
DEFAMILIARIZING THE WORK ETHIC
A “WORLDLY ASCETICISM”: PRODUCTIVISM MEETS CONSUMERISM
AUTONOMY AND COMMAND: MANAGING INDEPENDENCE
THE WORK ETHIC AND THE LABORING CLASSES
RACE, GENDER, AND THE PROPAGATION OF THE WORK ETHIC
POST-FORDISM AND THE WORK ETHIC
MANAGING POST-FORDIST INDEPENDENCE: BEING PROFESSIONAL
CONCLUSION
Chapter 2: Marxism, Productivism, and the Refusal of Work
MARXISM AND PRODUCTIVISM
SOCIALIST MODERNIZATION
SOCIALIST HUMANISM
HUMANISM REVISITED
AUTONOMIST MARXISM
THE REFUSAL OF WORK
THE ABOLITION OF WORK (AS WE KNOW IT)
BETTER WORK OR LESS WORK?
CONCLUSION AND SEGUE: FEMINISM AND THE REFUSAL OF WORK
Chapter 3: Working Demands: From Wages for Housework to Basic Income
READING THE FEMINIST PAST
THE DOMESTIC LABOR DEBATE
REPRODUCING THE SOCIAL FACTORY
THE REFUSAL OF WORK
THE LIMITS OF THE ANALYSIS
A DEMAND FOR WAGES
THE DEMAND AS PERSPECTIVE
THE DEMAND AS PROVOCATION
A DEMAND FOR BASIC INCOME
FROM WAGES TO INCOME: THE DEMAND AS PERSPECTIVE
BASIC INCOME AS PROVOCATION
INCOME BEYOND WAGES: BASIC INCOME AS A SUCCESSOR
CONCLUSION
Chapter 4: “Hours for What We Will”: Work, Family, and the Demand for Shorter Hours
LESS WORK AND MORE FAMILY
LESS WORK FOR “WHAT WE WILL”: DECENTERING THE FAMILY
BEYOND WORK ETHICS AND FAMILY VALUES
TOWARD A FEMINIST TIME MOVEMENT
Chapter 5: The Future Is Now: Utopian Demands and the Temporalities of Hope
UTOPIA’S CRITICS
IN DEFENSE OF UTOPIA: ERNST BLOCH’S ONTOLOGY OF THE NOT YET
UTOPIAN FORMS AND FUNCTIONS
CONCLUSION
Epilogue: A Life beyond Work
POLITICS AND CHANGE
PUBLICIZING AND POLITICIZING SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
GETTING A LIFE
Notes
INTRODUCTION
1. MAPPING THE WORK ETHIC
2. MARXISM AND THE REFUSAL OF WORK
3. WORKING DEMANDS
4. “HOURS FOR WHAT WE WILL”
5. THE FUTURE IS NOW
EPILOGUE
References
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