Motivations for Refusal

Mark Gawne, Ph.D. (2015), University of Sydney, is Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. He has taught widely in critical sociologies of labour and political economy, and writes on themes of work, class composition, and deindustrialisation, including “Love Is a Battlefield: on the Affective Politics of Crisis”, in The Love Collective (eds.), Love: Art, Ideas, Music, Politics (Kembla Books, 2020).

• ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction1 Crisis, Work, Motivation2 Why Work? What Life?3 Preliminary Comments on Postworkerism, Affective Labour, and Immaterial Production4 Motivation, Refusal, and the Affective Compositions of Capital and ClassPart 1: Labour, Value, Affect2 Lineages of Value, Theories of Labour1 Introduction2 Marx on Value: Variations and Ambivalences3 Value-Form4 Tracing the Lineages of Theories of Value5 Foundations of a New Substantialism: the Trinity of Labour-Value-Affect6 Notation: against a Productivist Foundation of Politics7 Conclusion3 Class Composition and the Prehistory of Immaterial Production1 Introduction2 Value and Antagonism3 Class Composition Analysis as Method and Perspective4 Workerist-Feminist Critiques, Wages for and against Housework5 The Emergence of Postworkerism and the Composition of Class6 Conclusion4 Affective Ontology, Cooperation, and the Crisis of Value1 Introduction2 The Crisis of Value3 Cooperation, Autonomous Production, and Measure4 From Class Composition to the Foundational Threshold of Political Ontology5 The Character of Labour in the Becoming-Rent of Profit6 Fragmentation and the Persistence of Mediation7 ConclusionPart 2: Contested Terrains of Affect5 The Affective Sciences and Managerial Practice1 Introduction2 Critical Management Studies and the Problem of Affect3 Affective Capitalism and the Theorisation of Labour and Capital4 The Affective Sciences and Management5 Affect as Material of Service Labour and Management6 Conclusion: Affective Management and the Technical Composition of Class6 Affective Capital, Labour, and Emotion Recognition Technology in the Workplace1 Introduction2 Affect and Emotion3 Affective Machines and Problems of Composition4 Human-Computer Interaction and Affective Capital5 Technologically Fixed Affects, or the ReInversion of the General Intellect6 Affective Augmentation, Productivity, and Surplus Value7 Conclusion: Technological Determinism or Technical Ambivalence?7 Ambivalence and the Affective Compositions of Capital and Class1 Introduction2 Class Compositions: Technical, Political, Social, Affective3 Affective Politics and the Affective Composition of Labour: Motivation and Refusal4 Affective Sciences and the Technical Composition of Class5 On Ambivalence6 Ambivalent Affects7 Conclusion8 ConclusionBibliographyIndex