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

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)

Format: eBook

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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Social Sciences.

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Call Number: PZ7.S588

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.