The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
6 best books like The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries (Kathi Weeks): Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0811200124 |
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
| Author | Silvia Federici |
| ISBN | 1570270597 |
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...
| Author | Silvia Federici |
| ISBN | 1604863331 |
Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the consequences of globalization. Originally inspired by Federici's organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the topics...
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
| Author | Adrienne Maree Brown |
| ISBN | 1849352607 |
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent...
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
| Author | Molly Smith |
| ISBN | 1786633604 |
You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear that it's dangerous; that women get abused and killed. You often hear, "There should be a law against it!" Or, perhaps just against the buyers. What do sex workers want? That's not something you hear asked very...
