Motivations for Refusal : Work, Value, and the Limits of Postworkerism /

In Motivations for Refusal: Work, Value, and the Limits of Postworkerism , Mark Gawne develops a critical account of how the affective politics of capital and class are formed and contested in contemporary arrangements of work, and offers a comprehensive critique of the postworkerist school of auton...

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Main Author: Gawne, Mark (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 315-32.

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505 0 |t Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction --  1 Crisis, Work, Motivation --  2 Why Work? What Life? --  3 Preliminary Comments on Postworkerism, Affective Labour, and Immaterial Production --  4 Motivation, Refusal, and the Affective Compositions of Capital and Class -- Part 1: Labour, Value, Affect -- 2 Lineages of Value, Theories of Labour --  1 Introduction --  2 Marx on Value: Variations and Ambivalences --  3 Value-Form --  4 Tracing the Lineages of Theories of Value --  5 Foundations of a New Substantialism: the Trinity of Labour-Value-Affect --  6 Notation: against a Productivist Foundation of Politics --  7 Conclusion -- 3 Class Composition and the Prehistory of Immaterial Production --  1 Introduction --  2 Value and Antagonism --  3 Class Composition Analysis as Method and Perspective --  4 Workerist-Feminist Critiques, Wages for and against Housework --  5 The Emergence of Postworkerism and the Composition of Class --  6 Conclusion -- 4 Affective Ontology, Cooperation, and the Crisis of Value --  1 Introduction --  2 The Crisis of Value --  3 Cooperation, Autonomous Production, and Measure --  4 From Class Composition to the Foundational Threshold of Political Ontology --  5 The Character of Labour in the Becoming-Rent of Profit --  6 Fragmentation and the Persistence of Mediation --  7 Conclusion -- Part 2: Contested Terrains of Affect -- 5 The Affective Sciences and Managerial Practice --  1 Introduction --  2 Critical Management Studies and the Problem of Affect --  3 Affective Capitalism and the Theorisation of Labour and Capital --  4 The Affective Sciences and Management --  5 Affect as Material of Service Labour and Management --  6 Conclusion: Affective Management and the Technical Composition of Class -- 6 Affective Capital, Labour, and Emotion Recognition Technology in the Workplace --  1 Introduction --  2 Affect and Emotion --  3 Affective Machines and Problems of Composition --  4 Human-Computer Interaction and Affective Capital --  5 Technologically Fixed Affects, or the ReInversion of the General Intellect --  6 Affective Augmentation, Productivity, and Surplus Value --  7 Conclusion: Technological Determinism or Technical Ambivalence? -- 7 Ambivalence and the Affective Compositions of Capital and Class --  1 Introduction --  2 Class Compositions: Technical, Political, Social, Affective --  3 Affective Politics and the Affective Composition of Labour: Motivation and Refusal --  4 Affective Sciences and the Technical Composition of Class --  5 On Ambivalence --  6 Ambivalent Affects --  7 Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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