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1. 1. The Workers of Society – the Artist, the Housewife and the Nun : A Feminist Marxist Analysis on the Intersections of Art, Care Work and Social Struggles

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Airi Triisberg; [2015]
   Keywords : Art workers; domestic and care work; precarious labour; social struggles; autonomist feminist Marxism;

   Abstract : What do art workers, nuns and care workers have in common? How can these commonalities be conceptualised from the perspective of feminist Marxism? How would such conceptualisation open up intersectional and transversal perspectives for social movements struggling against precariousness? Departing from an auto-ethnographic account on activist experiences originating from the art workers’ movement in Tallinn, this thesis aims to theorise the intersection of precarious labour and gender. By using the thinking technology of diffractive reading, it places the debates around unwaged labour within art and care sector into the context of autonomist Marxist thinking. READ MORE