Introduction
Series
SPELL-Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature
ISBN
978-3-8233-8502-8
Type
book section
Date Issued
2021-11-08
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
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.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Book title
Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History in North America
Publisher
Gunter Narr Verlag
Publisher place
Tübingen
Volume
40
Start page
5
End page
14
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
264992
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