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Work - The Last 1,000 Years
Andrea Komlosy; Translated by Jacob Watson, Loren Balhorn
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Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we
examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to
different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour
history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she
sheds light on the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour
(paid/unpaid, free/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation
and social protection and so on) on the local and the world levels.
Combining this global approach with a gender perspective opens our
eyes to the varieties of work and labour and their combination in
households and commodity chains across the planet-processes that
enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value
from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer,
realized by tapping into households' subsistence production,
informal occupation and makeshift employment. As the debate about
work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy's book
provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.
Are aesthetics and politics really two different things? The book
takes a new look at how they intertwine, by turning from theory to
practice. Case studies trace how sensory experiences are created
and how collective interests are shaped. They investigate how
aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and
disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This
ranges from populist rallies and artistic activism over alternative
lifestyles and consumer culture to corporate PR and governmental
policies. Authors are academics and artists. The result is a new
mapping of the intermingling and co-constitution of aesthetics and
politics in engagements with collective orders.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western
conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment.
But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal
experience of most people in the world-whether in colonies,
developing countries or in the industrializing world. Moreover,
from a feminist perspective, reducing work and the production of
value to remunerated employment has never been convincing. Andrea
Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine
it closely, work changes its meanings according to different
historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from
the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she sheds light on
the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour (paid/unpaid,
free/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation and social
protection and so on) on the local and the world levels. Combining
this global approach with a gender perspective opens our eyes to
the varieties of work and labour and their combination in
households and commodity chains across the planet-processes that
enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value
from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer,
realized by tapping into households' subsistence production,
informal occupation and makeshift employment. As the debate about
work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy's book
provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.
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