The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour

By: Mercer, Samuel

In On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed. This appendix was titled 'the Ideology of Work'.
This book takes inspiration from this appendix, to think about what is at stake for both Marxism and sociology in analysing work from an Althusserian perspective today. The dominant form of this ideology of work today is theoretical humanism. This book demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004703160
• ISBN13: 9789004703162
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 220 Pages