Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work,...
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Author: James A. Chamberlain
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Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work by Chamberlain, James A.

Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work

$388.35

Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work

$388.35
Author: James A. Chamberlain
Format: Paperback
Language: English

This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not.

Chamberlain focuses on the regimes of flexibility and the unconditional basic income, arguing that while both offer prospects for greater freedom and justice, they also incur the risk of shoring up the work society rather than challenging it. To transform the work society, he shows that we must also reconfigure the place of paid work in our lives and rethink the meaning of community at a deeper level. Throughout, he speaks to a broad readership, and his focus on freedom and social justice will interest scholars and activists alike. Chamberlain offers a range of strategies that will allow us to uncouple our deepest human values from the notion that worth is generated only through labor.



Author: James A. Chamberlain
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 05/15/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781501748448
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

James A. Chamberlain is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Mississippi State University.


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