Contrary to what we incessantly repeat about the end of work and the depoliticization of workers, this book demonstrates that work, in a time of flexibility, not only has a sense of, but is a source of engagement... Read More
This book replaces the question of work before of the political eye. Why do we work? For the salary, yes, but it is not just that. Starting with an ethnographic inquiry realized alongside supermarket cashiers in Belgium, Isabelle Ferreras shows us that work enrolls the worker into a public space, colored by an aspiration to justice. Contrary to what we repeat incessantly about the end of work and the depoliticization of workers, this book demonstrates that work, in a time of flexibility, has not only has a sense of, but is a source of engagement. It is an experience of a completely political nature.