Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History in North America
Author : J. Jesse Ramírez
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Release Date : 2021-11-08
ISBN 10 : 9783823395027
Pages : 213 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (395 downloads)
Download Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History in North America PDF Format Full Free by J. Jesse Ramírez and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like all fundamental categories, work becomes ever more complex as we examine it more closely. The terms "work," "labor," "job," "employment," "occupation," "profession," "vocation," "task," "toil," "effort," "pursuit," and "calling" form a dense web of overlapping and contrasting meanings. Moreover, the analysis of work must contend with how histories of class struggle, gendered and sexual divisions of labor, racial hierarchies, and citizenship regimes have determined who counts as a worker and qualifies for the rights, protections, and social respect thereof. And yet waged work is only the tip of an enormous iceberg that feminist theorists call "socially reproductive labor"—the gendered, mostly unpaid, and hidden work of caring for, feeding, nursing, and teaching the next generation of workers. This collection of essays explores the richness of work as a linguistic, cultural, and historical concept and the conjunctures that are changing work and its worlds.