Class Struggle in the 21st Century – Economic Sociology & Political Economy

2024-04-02 01:28:44

Whoever keeps posting Karl Marx quotes on the breakroom bulliten board needs to stop.
– Management

Engage yourself with consequential reflections about labor and class struggle in the 21st century with these (not just thought but also action-provoking) five superb books:

— Anderson, Elizabeth. 2023. Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back. Cambridge University Press
— Anderson, Elizabeth. 2019. Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Princeton University Press
— Frayne, David. 2022. The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work. Bloomsbury Academic
— Weeks, Kathi. 2011. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries. Duke University Press
— Wright, Erik Olin. 2021. How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century. Verso.

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