Motivations for Refusal
$37.39
- Paperback
253 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2026
Summary
A sharp and comprehensive critique of the postworkerist school of autonomist Marxism.
Motivations for Refusal develops a critical account of how the affective politics of capital and class are formed and contested in contemporary arrangements of work. Drawing on value critique and class composition analysis, it challenges core assumptions of postworkerism and related theories of affective labor, while retaining their core insights. Moving beyond the limits of postworkerism, the book a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798888907924 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Mark Gawne |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Imprint: | Haymarket Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 253 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Historical Materialism |
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About The Author
Mark Gawne
Mark Gawne is Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. He has taught widely in critical sociologies of labor and political economy, and writes on themes of work, class composition, and deindustrialization, including “Love Is a Battlefield: on the Affective Politics of Crisis”, in The Love Collective (eds.), Love: Art, Ideas, Music, Politics (Kembla Books, 2020).
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