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Why do we work so long and hard?
This opening line from "The Problem with Work" by Kathi Weeks begins an investigation into our political and cultural relationships with the activity that occupies most of our time - work.
Join us, an organisational psychologist and a curator/cultural researcher, as we discuss Weeks’s book, unpacking her analysis of the “work society”, and “Postwork invention” through interdisciplinary lenses.
We will confront Feminist, Marxist, and Antiwork Politics traditions from the perspective of two apparently distant worlds: the office cubicle and the artist studio!
This opening line from "The Problem with Work" by Kathi Weeks begins an investigation into our political and cultural relationships with the activity that occupies most of our time - work.
Join us, an organisational psychologist and a curator/cultural researcher, as we discuss Weeks’s book, unpacking her analysis of the “work society”, and “Postwork invention” through interdisciplinary lenses.
We will confront Feminist, Marxist, and Antiwork Politics traditions from the perspective of two apparently distant worlds: the office cubicle and the artist studio!
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Average audio length:
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English
United Kingdom
9 episodes
since June 19, 2025
episodic
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In this episode of The Problem with Work we discuss Chapter 5 - The Future is Now and the epilogue - A Life Beyond Work. In these pages, Weeks divides the discussion into three sections: cases against utopia, defence of utopia, and forms and functions of the utopian e…
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In this episode, we discuss Chapter 4 - Hours for What We Will: Work, Family and the Demand for Shorter Hours.
In her book, Weeks analyses 3 different ideological cases for shortening the workday:
(1) less work for more family time
(2) less work for more free time
(3)…
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In this episode of The Problem with Work we discuss the second part of chapter 3, Working Demands, and specifically about Kathi Weeks’ formulation of a proposal for a Universal Basic Income.
Following in her footsteps, we elaborate upon a Univers…
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In this episode, we set our sights on Chapter 3 where Weeks shifts her focus from “the development of an antiwork critique to the incitement of a postwork political imaginary,” (p. 32).
We focus on Weeks’ rereading of the 1970s movement…
In this episode, we discuss what Weeks refers to as the "parallel history of those who failed to internalize the ‘gospel of work’”. This is the other side of the story we told in Episode Four. Instead, it is about resisting and rejecting the Work Ethic. We offer a brief overview of what was (and is…
In this episode, we discuss what Weeks refers to as the “the diagnostic and deconstructive dimensions of the critical theory of work”. We do this in three stages: the evolution of the Work Ethic, the contradictions which reveal vulnerabilities in the Work Ethic, and our professional take on Chapter…
In this episode, we discuss Weeks' conceptual pairing of freedom and equality as a way to consider domination and subordination at work.
We talk about this using examples of employment contracts, gig work design, and roles with power and authority.
We also begin an exploration of traditional work…
In this episode of The Problem with Work, we introduce Kathi Weeks’ concept of ‘the work society’. We examine the interrelated ideas of social construction and reproduction through work, and identity via the categories of gender and class.
We discuss the usefulness of finding a name for work’s reac…
In this very first episode of The Problem with Work, we briefly introduce Kathi Weeks’ book after which this podcast is named and tell you a little about how our project came to be.
After a short introduction on our first encounter with this book, we present an overview of its two main parts:
a c…
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