{"product_id":"9781786634139","title":"Work: The Last 1,000 Years","description":"Author: Komlosy, Andrea\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781786634139\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience of most people in the world   whether in colonies, developing countries or in the industrializing world. Moreover, from a feminist perspective, reducing work and the production of value to remunerated employment has never been convincing.\u003cbr\u003eAndrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she sheds light on the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour (paid\/unpaid, free\/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation and social protection and so on) on the local and the world levels. Combining this global approach with a gender perspective opens our eyes to the varieties of work and labour and their combination in households and commodity chains across the planet   processes that enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer, realized by tapping into households' subsistence production, informal occupation and makeshift employment. As the debate about work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy's book provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46643214418078,"sku":"UBD-9781786634139","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781786634139.jpg?v=1774484244","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781786634139","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}