{"product_id":"work-by-andrea-komlosy-9781786634139","title":"Work","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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 industrialising world. Moreover, from a feminist perspective, reducing work and the production of value to remunerated employment has never been convincing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAndrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalising 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining 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, realised by tapping into households’ subsistence production, informal occupation and makeshift employment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the debate about work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, \u003cem\u003eWork\u003c\/em\u003e provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46835348832492,"sku":"9781786634139","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2870433482824.jpg?v=1758544843","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/work-by-andrea-komlosy-9781786634139","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}