Reading List
This is an ongoing list of related reading material to the different phases of Manual Labours’ research.
The Problem with Work
Weeks K, (2011)
Durham; London: Duke University Press
Non-Stop Inertia
Southwood I, (2011)
Winchester: Zero Books
Dirty Work. Concepts and Identities.
Simpson R, Slutskaya, N, Lewis P & Höpfl H (eds.), (2012)
London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society.
Richards V, et al. (eds) , ()
London: Freedom Press.
State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious
Lorey I, (2015)
New York and London: Verso Books.
The Hypochondriac: Bodies in Protest from Herman Melville to Toni Morrison
Lang M, (2007)
State University of New York at Stony Brook.
The Managed Heart. Commercialization of Human Feeling
Hochschild A, (1983)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries
Hesmondhalgh D and Baker S, (2011)
Oxon: Routledge
24/7: Time and Temporality in the Networked Society
Hassan R and Purser R, (2007)
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
The Productive Body
Guery F & Deleule D, (2014)
Winchester: Zero Books
The Affect Theory Reader
Gregg M and Seigworth G, (2010)
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Labour
Gordon M and Vishmidt M (eds), (2011)
New York: Linco Press.
The Performance of the Self in Everyday Life
Goffman E, (1959)
New York: Anchor Books
Whistle While You Work (For Nothing): Positive Affect as Coercive Strategy – The Case of Workfare
Friedli L & Stearn R, (2013)
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Federici S , (2004)
New York: Autonomedia
Resilient Life
Evans B & Reid J, (2014)
Cambridge, UK and Malden, Mass: Polity Press
Work Work Work: A Reader on Art and Labour.
Enqvist A, Engqvist JH, Masucci M, et al. , (2012)
Berlin: Sternberg Press
Counter Planning from the Kitchen: Wages for Housework, a Perspective on Capital and the Left
Cox N and Federici S, (1975)
Bristol: Falling Wall Press
Dead Man Working
Cederstrom C & Fleming P, (2012)
Winchester: Zero Books
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Butler J , (1990)
New York: Routledge.
Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Worker and His Industry.
Blauner R , (1964)
Chicago, IL; London: University of Chicago Press.
Immaterial Bodies: Affect, Embodiment, Mediation
Blackman L, (2012)
London: Sage.
Cruel Optimism
Berlant L, (2011)
Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy.
Berardi F, (2009)
Complaint: From Minor Moans to Principled Protests.
Baggini J, (2008)
London: Profile Books.
The Promise of Happiness
Ahmed S, (2010)
Durham and London: Duke University Press.
On the Phenomenom of Bullshit Jobs
Graeber, D., (2013)
Strike! Magazine. Accessed June 7, 2014.
The problem of Work
Berneri, C, (1938/1983)
in Richards, V. et al. (eds) Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society, pp.59-82., London: Freedom Press
Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
Aranda, J., Kuan Wood, B. and Vidokle, A, (2011)
Berlin: Sternberg Press