A Fairly Standard but Unfocused Work of Marxist and Feminist Philosophy
3 stars
This is a fairly unremarkable work of feminist and Marxist philosophy - reasoning about work and society more broadly from first principles and neglecting to bring in any supporting empirical data, quoting luminaries in the field as if they have proved some immutable fact about Western society, etc. Most of this book is at least vaguely focused on work, but it's mostly the idea of work - it becomes clear extremely quickly that Weeks has not engaged in either deep qualitative or quantitative investigation on the topic, and she does not bring in any research in those areas. There is also a mostly out of nowhere digression on the concept of utopia that takes up an entire chapter. If you are really looking for a book in this philosophical vein that is nominally about work it might be worth skimming, otherwise it's not very compelling
