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SUMMARY:'Beneath the Wage' with Annie McClanahan
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with author Annie McClanahan on Beneath the Wage: Tips\, Tasks\, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Zone Books\, 2026). Today\, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work\, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate? \n\nAlthough service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism\, this talk uses service work to challenge conventional assumptions about how work is waged\, regulated\, managed\, and automated. It explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor—superexploited tipwork\, deskilled clerical microwork\, and informalized gigwork—and argues that work done “beneath the wage” depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination and is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation. Yet service work has also begun to generate a new politics of solidarity\, one that rejects the compromises of industrial unionism and attends instead to the problem of reproduction in a low-wage economy. \nAnnie McClanahan is Professor of English at the University of California–Irvine. She directs the UC Marxist Institute for Research\, is Faculty Co-Director for UCI-LIFTED\, which offers a bachelors degree to incarcerated students\, and is the Vice President for the Council of UC Faculty Associations. She is also the author of Dead Pledges: Debt\, Crisis\, and 21st Century Culture (Stanford University Press\, 2017).
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/beneath-the-wage-with-annie-mcclanahan/
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CATEGORIES:Book Event or Panel,Book talks,Capital vs. Labor,Class and Gender,Classes/Events,Fall 2026,Gender,Healthcare,Labor Organizing,Labor Process,Organizing,Political Economy,Precarity,Seminars and Talks,Social Reproduction,Solidarity
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SUMMARY:Lefebvre Lecture 2: The Critique of Everyday Life
DESCRIPTION:We introduce the work of French Marxist theorist Henri Lefebvre through four monthly lectures presented by cultural studies scholar Iván Zatz-Díaz. \nLecture 2—November 15\nCritique of Everyday Life is Lefebvre’s overarching project from the immediate aftermath of WWII until his death in 1990. Volume 1 (1947) looks at Marx’s concept of alienation as a central explanation of life under capitalism. Volume 2 (1961) aims to set the path for a sociological analysis of late capitalist alienation. A brief account of his analysis of the French events of May-June 1968 will complete the presentation of this initial phase of the Critique. \nLecture 3—December 6\nThe Production of Space is Lefebvre’s best-known work in English and the reason he is often viewed reductively as an urban studies theorist\, especially in the United States. This presentation will approach the book rather as metaphilosophy\, highlighting its politically transformative intent. We will also address other Lefebvre writings on cities as an integral part of his look at everyday life. \nLecture 4—January 10\nCritique vol. 3 and Rhythmanalysis: In the last decade of his life\, Lefebvre returned to the Critique of Everyday Life in order to confront the imbrication of new technologies with the alienated life of latter-day capitalism. Rhythmanalysis\, his final work\, incorporates time into the analysis of everyday life\, particularly in the form of street rhythms seen from his window or observed in the spaces of Mediterranean cities. \nLecture 1—October 11 (video available on YouTube) \nMetaphilosophy: This introduction to Lefebvre’s work presents a framework to situate the overarching purpose of his thought as a form of political activism. Metaphilosophy sets an intent to move the act of thinking beyond itself and towards the living world\, beyond formal philosophy and sociology and towards the transformative. A brief look at Lefebvre’s work on Modernism\, Hegel\, Marx\, and Nietzsche will provide further context. \nIván Zatz-Díaz is a retired Professor of Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute in New York City. He has been a resident of three cities: Mexico City (by birth and upbringing)\, New York City (for much more than half his life)\, and Madrid (for the past two years and counting).
URL:https://marxedproject.net/event/four-lectures-lefebvre/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Alienation,Classes/Events,Critical Theory,Cultural Resistance,Fall 2026,featured,France,Hegel,historical materialism,Marx,Marxisms,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Reading Group,Seminars and Talks,Urbanism
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