The Refusal Of Work
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The Refusal Of Work
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Author : David Frayne
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2022-07-14
The Refusal Of Work written by David Frayne and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-14 with Labor categories.
Paid work is absolutely central to the culture and politics of capitalist societies, yet today's work-centred world is becoming increasingly hostile to the human need for autonomy, spontaneity and community. The grim reality of a society in which some are overworked, whilst others are condemned to intermittent work and unemployment, is progressively more difficult to tolerate.In this thought-provoking book, David Frayne questions the central place of work in mainstream political visions of the future, laying bare the ways in which economic demands colonise our lives and priorities. Drawing on his original research into the lives of people who are actively resisting nine-to-five employment, Frayne asks what motivates these people to disconnect from work, whether or not their resistance is futile, and whether they might have the capacity to inspire an alternative form of development, based on a reduction and social redistribution of work.A crucial dissection of the work-centred nature of modern society and emerging resistance to it, The Refusal of Work is a bold call for a more humane and sustainable vision of social progress.
The Problem With Work
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Author : Kathi Weeks
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-09-09
The Problem With Work written by Kathi Weeks and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-09 with Business & Economics categories.
The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.
Understanding School Refusal
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Author : M. S. Thambirajah
language : en
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Release Date : 2008
Understanding School Refusal written by M. S. Thambirajah and has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Psychology categories.
School refusal is a crippling condition in which children experience extreme anxiety or panic attacks when faced with everyday school life. This book aims to explore, raise awareness of the problem and provide plans and strategies for education, health and social care professionals for identifying and addressing this problem
A Feminist Theory Of Refusal
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Author : Bonnie Honig
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11
A Feminist Theory Of Refusal written by Bonnie Honig and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Social Science categories.
An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that does not simply withdraw from the status quo but also transforms it. The Bacchae, Euripides’s fifth-century tragedy, famously depicts the wine god Dionysus and the women who follow him as indolent, drunken, mad. But Bonnie Honig sees the women differently. They reject work, not out of laziness, but because they have had enough of women’s routine obedience. Later they escape prison, leave the city of Thebes, explore alternative lifestyles, kill the king, and then return to claim the city. Their “arc of refusal,” Honig argues, can inspire a new feminist politics of refusal. Refusal, the withdrawal from unjust political and economic systems, is a key theme in political philosophy. Its best-known literary avatar is Herman Melville’s Bartleby, whose response to every request is, “I prefer not to.” A feminist politics of refusal, by contrast, cannot simply decline to participate in the machinations of power. Honig argues that a feminist refusal aims at transformation and, ultimately, self-governance. Withdrawal is a first step, not the end game. Rethinking the concepts of refusal in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Adriana Cavarero, and Saidiya Hartman, Honig places collective efforts toward self-governance at refusal’s core and, in doing so, invigorates discourse on civil and uncivil disobedience. She seeks new protagonists in film, art, and in historical and fictional figures including Sophocles’s Antigone, Ovid’s Procne, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna, and Muhammad Ali. Rather than decline the corruptions of politics, these agents of refusal join the women of Thebes first in saying no and then in risking to undertake transformative action.
Bullshit Jobs
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Author : David Graeber
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2019-05-07
Bullshit Jobs written by David Graeber and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-07 with Social Science categories.
From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).
Refusal Shoes
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Author : Tony Saint
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Refusal Shoes written by Tony Saint and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Emigration and immigration categories.
Immigration: a suitable case for comedy?
Critical Theory
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Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Critical Theory written by Stephen Eric Bronner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.
Preface -- Introduction: what is critical theory? -- The frankfurt school -- A matter of method -- Critical theory and modernism -- Alienation and reification -- Enlightened illusions -- The utopian laboratory -- The happy consciousness -- The great refusal -- From resignation to renewal -- Unfinished tasks -- Further reading -- Index
Refusal
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Author : Jenny Molberg
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2020-02-12
Refusal written by Jenny Molberg and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-12 with Poetry categories.
In Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny—invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide—to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppression. Exposing the effects of widespread toxic misogyny, this confrontational volume examines societal, cultural, and personal gaslighting in situations of domestic abuse. As Molberg writes in “Loving Ophelia Is,” “love and hate simultaneously is the trick of abuse / and the trick of abuse is a vexation of the mind.” A sequence of epistolary poems looks to friendship as a safe haven from violent romantic relationships, while another series on a mother’s struggle with addiction captures the complicated nature of a parent-child relationship affected by alcoholism. Refusal seeks to break silences and to interrogate a cultural misogyny that weighs heavily on a woman’s position in the world.
Summary The Refusal Of Work The Theory And Practice Of Resistance To Work By David Frayne
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Author : MY MBA
language : en
Publisher: MY MBA
Release Date : 2022-05-08
Summary The Refusal Of Work The Theory And Practice Of Resistance To Work By David Frayne written by MY MBA and has been published by MY MBA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-08 with Business & Economics categories.
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