Ideology of Work

Samuel J.R. Mercer is a lecturer in social policy at Liverpool Hope University. He is a member of the editorial board of Rethinking Marxism and has published work in journals such as Economy and Society and Décalages.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Ideology of Work1 A Crisis of Marxism2 Structure of the Book1 The Humanist Controversy1 Humanism as a Theoretical Problem2 Humanism as a Political Problem3 Anti-humanism after Althusser: The Spinozist Detour4 Anti-humanism after Althusser: The Hegelian/Lacanian Detour5 A Sociological Detour: Anti-humanism and Work6 Conclusion2 The Concept of ‘Labour’ in Marx’s Critique of Political Economy1 Marx Explodes the Concept of ‘Labour’2 A ‘Politics of Labour’3 Labour and Ideology4 Conclusion3 ‘Social Labour’ and the Critique of Work in Marxist Theory1 ‘Social Labour’2 Theory, Politics and ‘Social Labour’ in the Marxist Critique of Work3 Conclusion4 Theoretical Humanism and the Post-work Imaginary1 A Brave New World of (Post-)work2 The Problem with Post-work3 The Theoretical Humanism of Post-work Thought4 Conclusion5 Social Reproduction and Theoretical Anti-humanism1 A ‘Crisis’ of Feminism?2 Emotion, Alienation and Reproductive Labour3 Towards an Anti-humanist Theoretical Feminism: Social Reproduction Theory4 Conclusion6 ‘Making’ History: The Concept of Labour and the Anthropocene Discourse1 Labour and the Theoretical Humanism of the Anthropocene2 Alienation, Modernity and the Anthropocene3 Humanism, Historicism, Marxism: Labour Between ‘Fossil Capital’ and the ‘Capitalocene’4 ConclusionConclusion: Marxism in SociologyReferencesIndex