Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work

Weeks, Kathi

doi:10.1353/wsq.2017.0043

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“…Asking about salary, for example, was said to be 'not done'. As Savage et al argue, this type of reasoning is mainly adhered to by those who can afford it (2015, p. 62) and is in line with the dominant ideology that work should be done out of love (Tokumitsu, 2015;Weeks, 2017). It was, in a sense, a fantasy to expect these particular welfare clients to adhere seriously to this value.…”

Section: Performances For Upward Mobility: Introspection and Imitationmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Political discourses about work and workfare policies suggest that work is a 'happy object,' in the words of Sara Ahmed (2010, p. 28). At any rate in certain contexts, it is recognised as a source of happiness and wellbeing, for both individuals and societies as a whole (Sage, 2019;Tokumitsu, 2015;Weeks, 2017). On the website of the Dutch government one can read that 'a job offers people social contacts, self-confidence and the possibility for personal development'.…”

Section: Work(fare) As the Promise Of Upward Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The analogy with selling and buying a product was a recurring one, as welfare clients were taught to think of themselves as being entrepreneurial (cf. Weeks, 2017) and making themselves 'valuable' in the market (cf. Skeggs, 2004), commodifying not only their labour power, but their whole selves (Tokumitsu, 2015;Weeks, 2017;cf.…”

Section: Performances For Upward Mobility: Introspection and Imitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Weeks, 2017) and making themselves 'valuable' in the market (cf. Skeggs, 2004), commodifying not only their labour power, but their whole selves (Tokumitsu, 2015;Weeks, 2017;cf. Lorey, 2012).…”

Section: Performances For Upward Mobility: Introspection and Imitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Performances for upward mobility: How Dutch workfare programmes function as temporal spaces of imagination

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2020

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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The gradual retreat of many governments from actively supporting secure labour relations and social security through welfare arrangements, and the related normalisation of precarious conditions, goes hand-in-hand with a promise of the attainability of 'the good life' through work. Workfare programmes are at the centre of this, as they are aimed at 'improving' welfare clients and their position in society through performing precarious work. Based on an ethnographic study of group workshops in three Dutch workfare programmes, this article shows how welfare clients are taught the promise of upward mobility through waged labour and are required to give 'the right' performances that might (in principle if, often, not in practice) potentially enable them to be successful on the post-Fordist labour market. I argue that these workshops function as temporal spaces of imagination in which adherence to the promise of upward mobility through paid work can best be understood as a form of post-Fordist affect, one that enacts, albeit temporarily, a resolution that is frequently lacking in real life.

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Section: Performances For Upward Mobility: Introspection and Imitationmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Work(fare) As the Promise Of Upward Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Performances For Upward Mobility: Introspection and Imitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Performances For Upward Mobility: Introspection and Imitationmentioning

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2020

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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“…Part of precarisation is that contemporary labour ‘demands the whole person’ (Lorey, 2015, p. 5) and mobilises passion (Cannizzo, 2017; McRobbie, 2016) and love (Weeks, 2017). This is so because much labour today is at least in part ‘immaterial’: a service, idea or knowledge is what is exchanged.…”

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The new discomforts of precarious workers: Wardrobe matter, insecurity and the temporality of calibration in dress work

Berg

Vonk

2019

The Sociological Review

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This article provides a study of precarisation through the lens of dress work: the mundane practice of dressing the body for work. Based on intimate in-depth wardrobe interviews and analyses of workers’ narratives about their dressing practices, we develop a perspective on what insecure work feels like for workers in the interactive services and creative industries. We understand dress work as a materially mediated practice in which workers often aim to achieve a level of comfort: a state in which they are allowed to become less reflexive about their bodies. One of the ways in which precarisation makes itself known, we contend, is through the temporal logic of the interruption. The temporality of zero-hours contracts and short-term, insecure labour interrupts the achievement of comfort as workers are not allowed the time to experience their work, colleagues and spaces. The discomfort and sometimes pain of insecurity of post-Fordist labour is thus felt on the body.

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Quiet Quitting as Compensatory Respect: Meaningful Work, Recognition, and the Entrepreneurial Ethic

Corbin,

Flenady

2024

Philosophy of Management

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This paper employs Axel Honneth’s recognition theory to interpret ‘quiet quitting’ – the practice of limiting work efforts to contracted requirements – as a strategic response by workers facing misrecognition in their work environment. Honneth argues that misrecognition in any one of three social spheres (the family, political society, and the workplace) constitutes disrespect and causes psychological harm. While Honneth contends that experiences of disrespect tend to motivate collective “struggles for recognition,” we suggest that quiet quitters present an alternative response to disrespect, individually seeking recognition in other social spheres rather than engaging in collective action. Further, we draw on Honneth to suggest that the contemporary “entrepreneurial” work ethic – the widespread expectation that workers invest emotionally in their work role – can in practice undermine workplace recognition, contributing to quiet quitters’ compensatory emphasis on recognitive relations outside of work. This recognition-theoretical approach extends current discussions around quiet quitting and yields valuable insights for management theory and practice regarding the critical role of genuine employee recognition in promoting individual well-being and meaningful work experiences.

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Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work

Cited by 25 publications

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Performances for upward mobility: How Dutch workfare programmes function as temporal spaces of imagination

Performances for upward mobility: How Dutch workfare programmes function as temporal spaces of imagination

The new discomforts of precarious workers: Wardrobe matter, insecurity and the temporality of calibration in dress work

Quiet Quitting as Compensatory Respect: Meaningful Work, Recognition, and the Entrepreneurial Ethic

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