Workfare, Familyfare, Godfare
Transforming Contingency into Necessity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4436570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melinda Cooper (0000-0002-1798-4320) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 643-661 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-1724120 |
| OpenAlex | W2096783031 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
The essay identifies workfare as the exemplary form of contingent labor practice inasmuch as it blurs the boundaries between the free and unfree labor contract, welfare and work, flexibility and compulsion. However, analyses of workfare have too often ignored the centrality of sexual politics to the tendencies of welfare and labor reform. Arguing that neoliberal labor practice is inseparable from the theological project of neopaternalist social policy, the essay casts a critical eye on the moral orthodoxies of recent capitalist critique (Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek). The theological turn of recent anticapitalist theory is merely the refracted expression of faith-based workfare and is entirely complicit with the restorative moment of capital's double movement
Centrality · Contingency · Epistemology · Faith · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Welfare · Workfare · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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Feminism at the Crossroads of Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism
Policing reproductive labour in the welfare state
Ticking boxes and clocking in
Workplace tours and the cultural production of flexibility
Challenging infrastructures of domestic labor
Undoing Social Policy
Experimental policy, price and the provocative state
Continuity or change? Platforms and the hybridization of neoliberal institutional contexts
Work in the shadow of finance
At what price? Labour politics and calculative power struggles in on-demand food delivery
The subject and power of bioethics
Toward a critical theory of corporate wellness
Housework, Wages and Money
Gender and Labour in New Times
State of Speculation
What Are Post-Fordist Wages? Simmel, Labor Money, and the Problem of Value
Rethinking Polanyi's double movement through participatory justice
Precarious Participants, Online Labour Platforms and the Academic Mode of Production
Disobedient Workers, the Law and the Making of Unemployment Markets
The making of gendered 'migrant workers' in youth activation
Shaping activation policy at the street level
The Catholicization of Neoliberalism
Revolution at Point Zero
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |