UNDOING WORK, RETHINKING COMMUNITY: A CRITIQUE OF THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF WORK
Book ID/图书代码： 03360020C00096
English Summary/英文概要： This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community, James A. Chamberlain argues that paid work and the civic duty to perform it substantially undermines freedom and justice. Chamberlain believes that to seize back our time and transform our society, we must abandon the deep-seated view that community is constructed by work, whether paid or not.
Chamberlain focuses on the regimes of flexibility and the unconditional basic income, arguing that while both offer prospects for greater freedom and justice, they also incur the risk of shoring up the work society rather than challenging it. To transform the work society, he shows that we must also reconfigure the place of paid work in our lives and rethink the meaning of community at a deeper level. Throughout, he speaks to a broad readership, and his focus on freedom and social justice will interest scholars and activists alike. Chamberlain offers a range of strategies that will allow us to uncouple our deepest human values from the notion that worth is generated only through labor.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本革命性的书提出了一个新的社会概念和反对资本主义的斗争。詹姆斯•张伯伦在《废除工作，重新思考社区》一书中认为，有偿工作和履行公民义务极大地破坏了自由和正义。张伯伦认为，要夺回我们的时间，改变我们的社会，我们必须放弃那种根深蒂固的观点，即社会是由工作所建立的，无论是否有报酬。
张伯伦关注的是弹性制度和无条件基本收入，他认为，虽然这两种制度都为更大的自由和公正提供了前景，但它们也带来了支撑工作社会的风险，而不是挑战它。为了改造工作社会，他指出，我们还必须重新配置有偿工作在我们生活中的位置，并在更深层次上重新思考社区的意义。自始至终，他都在向广大读者发表演讲，他对自由和社会正义的关注将引起学者和活动人士的兴趣。张伯伦提供了一系列的策略，使我们能够将人类最深层的价值观念与劳动创造价值的观念分离开来。（WYL）
Awards/获奖情况：“从政治演讲到学术辩论，从流行的新闻报道到职业咨询演讲，从我们当前的社会秩序提供的丰富的材料中，轻松优雅地撤销工作，重新思考社区活动。詹姆斯•张伯伦提出了一个简单明了的论点:在我们的“工作社会”中，衡量好公民的标准是“有报酬的就业”，这极大地破坏了自由和平等。”
"Undoing Work, Rethinking Community moves with ease and elegance from political speech to scholarly debates to popular journalism to career-counseling discourses, drawing on the rich array of materials that our current social order offers. James A. Chamberlain advances a single and refreshingly simple thesis: the measure of good citizenship in our ‘work society’ is ‘gainful employment,’ and this significantly undermines both liberty and equality."
About the Author/作者介绍： 詹姆斯•张伯伦是密西西比州立大学政治学助理教授。
James A. Chamberlain is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Mississippi State University.
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